How Do You Avoid Health Care Fraud?
We need to be careful and protect ourselves from paying on services we never receive. Health care providers are the most people committing health care fraud. If you receive a bill that you know nothing about contact your insurance company as soon as possible. They need to be notified of things like this because this can cause health cost to rise, especially if lots of providers are doing it. We must do whatever we can to keep the cost down. The more people that commit health care fraud will end up making insurance unaffordable to many. If you lose your insurance card contact your insurance provider immediately. Someone could try and use it and may even get by with it. Before having any high cost surgery or a lot of test done, ask for the price of each. Then call your insurance company and see ahead of time what will be due on your part. When the bills start coming in and they say differently than what was discussed by your insurance, there could be health care fraud taking place. After
