TY - JOUR T1 - Medicare, Medicaid fraud a billion-dollar art form in the US JF - Canadian Medical Association Journal JO - CMAJ SP - 1195 LP - 1197 VL - 156 IS - 8 AU - M. Korcok Y1 - 1997/04/15 UR - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/156/8/1195.abstract N2 - Medicare and Medicaid fraud costs billions of dollars each year in the US. Investigators have shown that fraud is found in all segments of the health care system. Even though the Canadian system has stricter regulations and tighter controls, can regulators here afford to be complacent about believing that such abuse would not happen here? One province has established an antifraud unit to monitor its health insurance scheme; it already has 1 prosecution under its belt. ER -