Medical Fraud
Online Course Overview
The Medical Fraud course takes a hard look at medical fraud and quackery. It provides expert insight into the cons who perpetrate medical fraud and resources to help law enforcement tackle this growing and sometimes deadly epidemic.
Online Course Features
Medical fraud is pervasive and plays off the vanity and fears of its victims. It is a problem of remarkable proportions, risking victims' lives and costing us billions of dollars every year. Chuck Whitlock, author of the best-selling book Mediscams, gives you a healthy understanding of this specialized area of fraud and the procedures necessary to adequately investigate and prosecute medical scam artists. This interactive and dynamic online course includes:
- An overview of medical fraud including: Medicare and Medicaid fraud, vanity scams, caregiver fraud, phony medical products, alternative medicines, unlicensed physicians, insurance fraud, bogus diagnostic tests, multilevel marketing and more
- Resources to help identify and investigate questionable health claims and practices
- Real-life stories from victims of dangerous medical practices
- A Crimeline interview with U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona
- Insights from Stephen Barrett, MD, Board Chairman of Quackwatch, Inc., and Vice President of the National Council Against Health Fraud
- Information from Chuck Whitlock's book Mediscams, which offers a guide to spotting and avoiding medical fraud
