Comments on: Investigating charges of Medi-Cal fraud

Jim, are you a Krugman stalker?

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A rather modest amount of criminal penalty enforcement could go a long way to reducing fraud. If one compares health care costs in the US with those in other countries, it's a money per person co...

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Carnival Of The Capitalists Welcome to the August 15th edition of the Carnival of the Capitalists. This is my second experience hosting CotC, so I'm hoping that I've got...

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Hmm, bounty hunters maybe? Looks like what is needed is a efficient privatized detection and enforcement mechanism. Independent auditors and investigators are awarded a percentage of the recovery...

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Thanks for the helpful links, Victor. I didn't notice the mention on that site of random audits or systematic database searches. Do you know what fraction of Medi-Cal claims are currently subject...

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Correction: I slovenly misread the number for fraud for California in the initial post -- it seems far from an efficient garden of purity. The up to 40% fraud for CA actually matches quite well w...

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"... when Krugman and others cite the efficiency of Medicare, do they include the possible 10% of expenditures that are made in error?" Possible 10%?? 'Tis nothing. And California seems an effici...

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But can anyone tell me why measures like these wouldn't be worth trying? ... Can you explain to me how that is different than what they already do? (http://www.dhs.ca.gov/ane/? Also note from the...

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