Medical Xpress June 8, 2023
Findings from an innovative study conducted by a team of researchers at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and published in the journal Social Science & Medicine are providing new insights into how the rapid spread (or diffusion) of fraudulent Medicare home health care billing has occurred across the U.S. in recent years.
To understand the significant growth of Medicare fraud during the 2000s in just a few regions of the country, the research team examined the network structure of home health agencies (HHAs) and identified a set of characteristics shared by regions where fraud was most likely to occur.
Among their key findings, they determined that these characteristics included the sharing of patients across multiple (and often many) agencies; high...
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