The Importance Of Health Care Fraud

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Getting rid of health care fraud is very important for the safety of everyone, especially patients! A lot of money has been lost over the years, trying to recover medical records and such. Everyone needs to be aware of possible fraudulent activities, not just when it comes to health care, but any kind of fraud or abuse, as some things lost are hard to recover.

I found that the amount of fraud went up from 2014 to 2015 due to the technology now used to store medical records and such. The number of health records breached in 2014 was 10,000,000. The number of health records breached in 2015 was 80,000,000. That is a huge jump in just one year!

There are a lot of people that know how use computers in such ways where they can get any bit of information

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