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combatting health care fraud. Between 2003 and 2017, Medicare spent $7.7 billion on 37.5 million regularly scheduled, non … more cost-effective than ex post ligation for preventing health care fraud …
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care fraud. In this paper, we consider the diffusion of potentially fraudulent Medicare home health care billing in the … anti-fraud "strike force" offices. We hypothesize that patient-sharing across home health care agencies provides a …
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develop new statistical tests to uncover strategic data manipulation consistent with fraud. These tests help identify … fraud in harder to monitor sectors and in a Kenyan election year when graft also had political value. The results are …
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This study examines "tunneling" practices through which health care providers covertly extract profit by making inflated payments for goods and services to commonly-owned related parties. While incentives to tunnel exist across sectors, health care providers may find it uniquely advantageous to...
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The rapid increase in online instruction in higher education has heightened concerns about cheating. We use a randomized control design to test whether informing students that we can detect plagiarism reduces cheating. We further test whether informing students they have been caught cheating...
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Blockchain front-running involves multiple agents, other than the legitimate agent, claiming a payment from performing a contract. It arises because of the public nature of blockchain transactions and potential network congestion. This paper notes that disputes over payments are similar to...
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Screening requirements are common features of fraud and corruption mitigation efforts around the world. Yet imposing … beneficiaries on one hand and lower fraud on the other. We examine these trade-offs in one of the largest economic relief programs … measures of loan irregularities that are indicative of fraud. Moreover, our analysis reveals that a subset of borrowers with a …
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One frequently overlooked aspect of the U.S.-style electoral college system is that it discourages election fraud. In a … judiciary. However, with the electoral college system in place, the incentives for fraud shift to swing states where the local … government is politically divided, and fraud is therefore more difficult and costly. Our theoretical model elucidates why the …
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This paper develops a new approach to detecting electoral fraud. Our context involves repeaters, individuals voting in … the secret ballot itself reducing voter fraud. The pattern is also driven by smaller population counties, consistent with …
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We study how reminding high-risk patients with chronic disease of their upcoming primary care appointments impacts their health care and behaviors. We leverage a natural experiment in Chile's public healthcare system that sent reminders before preventative care appointments to over 300,000...
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