With an estimated 60,000 Canadians dying each year from medical errors and hospital-acquired infections, Canada should create legislation to establish health-care-worker-to-patient ratios and make public reporting of data more stringent, a health care safety activist says.
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About CHCAA
The Canadian Health Care Anti-fraud Association was founded in 2000 to give a voice to the public and private sector health care organizations interested in preventing fraud in the Canadian health care environment.
Membership is open to organizations and individuals responsible for the detection, prevention, investigation and prosecution of health care fraud.
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A 25-year-old British tourist was hospitalized with serious stab wounds after a dispute at a Las Vegas business that police say was marketed as a reflexology spa but operated as a prostitution scam. Tourists impaired by alcohol or drugs are popular victims at the fake prostitution businesses, according to the arrest reports.
Temple University has agreed to pay $412,000 to resolve its part of a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme involving a former associate dean of its medical school. The university’s payment represents a portion of more than $1 million in restitution connected to the federal fraud case of the former ophthalmology school chairman who was accused of overbilling for patient care actually being handled by residents.
A nursing home industry task force created after a Star investigation into elder abuse is recommending sweeping changes to fix the system that cares for 77,000 fragile seniors. The investigation, which examined 1,500 nursing home inspection reports, found serious behavioural problems among residents. For example, at one nursing home, a male resident sexually assaulted an elderly woman. A ministry inspector found the same man had 18 recent encounters with other residents, all involving sexual assaults, inappropriate touching or verbal abuse. The ministry found the home did not properly follow up with the man or the resident he assaulted.
Fraud and the abuse of healthcare services in the U.S. cost an estimated $125-175 billion annually. This represents the second largest component of the $600-850 billion surplus in healthcare spending.
A former police officer from Pontefract who took time off work after lying about her daughter having cancer has admitted fraud.
She admitted that, between January 1 2009 and October 10 last year, she claimed her daughter “was ill with a form of cancer, she had had a tumour which was surgically removed requiring chemotherapy that necessitated absence from work”.
