Health Insurance Fraud: An Overview

October 29, 2009 Written by Sara Rosenbaum, Nancy Lopez, Scott Stifler, all from the School of Public Health & Health Services, George Washington University., they write that in 2007, the U.S. spent nearly $2.3 trillion on health care and public and private insurers processed more than 4 billion health insurance claims. The National Health Care Anti- Fraud Association (NHCAA) has estimated that, conservatively, 3% of all health care spending is lost to health care fraud. Other estimates by government and law enforcement agencies place fraud-related losses as high as 10% of annual health care spending. What is . . .