Recognizing Fraud in Health Care
- List of resources and links related to various kinds of health care fraud.
- http://seniorhealth.about.com/library/prevention/blfraudintro.htm
Pay It Right - Protecting Medicare from Fraud
- Online booklet on how to identify and avoid fraudulent Medicare billing practices and how to report suspected fraudulent products and practices.
- http://www.medicare.gov/Publications/Pubs/pdf/10111.pdf
Protecting Yourself Against Health Fraud
- U. S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition provides a guide to health care practices and products that may be fraudulent.
- http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/wh-fraud.html
BBB Tips - Health
- Articles mainly warning about dangerous or questionable products and services related to health care or pharmaceuticals.
- http://www.bbb.org/alerts/Health.asp
Bureau of Health Professions
- Manages and provides access to the National Practitioner Data Bank, the Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank, and the Federal Credentialing Program.
- http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/
File a Complaint
- Better business bureau online accepts your complains and forwards them to the appropriate law enforcement authorities.
- http://www.bbbonline.org/consumer/complaint.asp
GAO.gov Health Care Fraud Report
- Information-sharing proposals to improve enforcement efforts on health care fraud cases.
- http://www.securitymanagement.com/library/000187.html
Health Care Fraud Report
- Features a broad range of health care fraud and abuse issues in the private insurance industry, managed care organizations, federal and state programs.
- http://www.bna.com/products/health/hfra.htm
Health Hippo: Fraud and Abuse
- Policy and regulatory materials related to health care fraud and abuse.
- http://hippo.findlaw.com/hippofra.html
Medline Plus
- Focuses on health fraud resources and tips on where to report fraud cases. Partially in Spanish.
- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthfraud.html
New Jersey AIDS Health Fraud Task Force
- Identifies the promotion of an AIDS related health product, treatment or service that is known to be false, unproven, or potentially harmful.
- http://www.state.nj.us/health/aids/fraud/
Federal Trade Commission
- A list of online fact sheets on selected topics for which the Federal Trade Commission has had to address consumer complaints regarding fraud. Some are available in Spanish.
- http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/menu-health.htm
AIDS Fraud Task Force
- Advice and information on how to evaluate HIV products or treatments to prevent fraud.
- http://www.fda.gov/oashi/aids/eval.html
Health Watch UK
- Information on how to spot fraudulent claims. Non-profit organization in the UK.
- http://www.healthwatch-uk.org/
Bally Total Fitness
- Articles and discussion over the alleged abuses and scams of the Bally Total Fitness national gym chain.
- http://www.aboutballyfitness.com
DietFraud.com
- Exposes diet fraud, rip-offs and scams and allows consumers to file complaints and even join class action lawsuits against companies that market fraudulent products and devices.
- http://www.dietfraud.com
HealthWatcher.net
- Provides several recourses related to health fraud including books and articles.
- http://www.healthwatcher.net