Fraudulent Practices Abound in Post-Accident Healthcare
Medpage Today, May 10, 2024
- What happened: Irving physician Dr. Robert Groysman is highlighting the role that rampant inflated medical charges, unnecessary doctor’s visits and unjustifiable billing have in increasing the cost of personal injury lawsuits.
- Go further: Personal injury trial lawyers often work with a select network of doctors who agree to over-diagnose, over-treat and over-bill clients. The medical professionals are often working on a contingency fee, meaning the more they can inflate the value of the lawsuit, the more they will ultimately get paid out of the damage award at the end.
- Price check: The National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association estimates financial losses due to healthcare fraud ranging from $68 billion to as high as $300 billion.
- TLR Thoughts: The collaboration between personal injury trial lawyers and some medical professionals abuses the legal system and puts the lawyer’s and doctor’s interests above the patient’s. It’s time Texas took a close look at this alliance and its role in abusive litigation.
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