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Counteracting Fraud, Waste And Abuse In Drug Test Billing, Allison Walton
Counteracting Fraud, Waste And Abuse In Drug Test Billing, Allison Walton
Economic Crime Forensics Capstones
Medicaid, Medicare, and major insurance companies are being faced with increased costs for drug test screening. These costs are not caused by a spike in the use of narcotics by subscribers, but from unnecessary testing and overbilling by doctors and drug screening companies. Recovering drug addicts are required to have random drug tests during their treatment program, but instead of being random, the drug tests have become prescriptive. Testing is performed at specific times weekly on a single patient, for substances that return results that are unimportant to the doctors. Doctors are given drug testing kits by large drug testing …
Examining The Impact Of Florida's Non-Economic Damage Cap On Elderly Populations, Andrew W. Dodds
Examining The Impact Of Florida's Non-Economic Damage Cap On Elderly Populations, Andrew W. Dodds
CMC Senior Theses
In this paper, I use data from the Florida Closed Claims Database to investigate how Florida’s 2003 non-economic damage cap legislation impacted elderly malpractice claimants. More specifically, I measure whether or not non-economic damage caps adversely impact claimants in counties with high elderly densities. To measure the effect of Florida’s non-economic damage caps, I look at multiple metrics that measure both elderly claimants’ monetary gains and their access to the justice system after the reform is passed. I find mildly conclusive evidence that counties with higher elderly density, and assumedly more elderly claimants, are more likely to settle cases before …