The Unintended Consequences of Targeting Healthcare Fraud

At times during the healthcare debate, Democrats and Republicans only agreed on their zeal to proclaim how much they were committed to intensifying the Government’s war on health care fraud. Lost in these moments of rare bipartisanship, however, were the uncounted, but real, costs of the Government’s ever increasing focus on healthcare fraud enforcement.

Originally published by Bloomberg Finance L.P in the Vol. 3, No. 5 edition of the Bloomberg Law Reports—Health Law.