Medicare fraud and abuse results on abusing the system and increases the strain on the Medicare Trust Fund which cost taxpayers billions of dollars while putting beneficiaries’ health and welfare at risk. But there are laws such as Physician Self-Referral Law that will help us avoid such situation. Physician Self-Referral Law, in definition, can be basically characterized as a law for referrals from a doctor. The issue with doctor referral toward oneself is that a doctor alludes a patient to a medicinal office in which he has a money related premium, be it proprietorship, venture, or an organized pay Continue reading...