Sleep Disorder Fraud: With the uptick in sleep disorder services and government spending comes the discovery of schemes and scams.
Posted 01/26/16
By Jessica Moore, published in ADVANCE Healthcare Network
Increasing numbers of troubled sleepers are seeking diagnosis and treatment of chronic sleep disorders that affect more than fifty million Americans. The significant growth in sleep medicine over recent years brings increasing opportunities for the unscrupulous to engage in fraudulent services and billing of federal and state heath care programs that...
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Can one commit fraud while sleeping? Sort of.
Increasing numbers of troubled sleepers are seeking diagnosis and treatment of chronic sleep disorders that affect more than fifty million Americans. The significant growth in sleep medicine over recent years brings increasing opportunities for the unscrupulous to engage in fraudulent services and billing
The most common method of diagnosing sleep disorders is a...
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