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According to another driver behind Jean-ended Fitzgerald’s Hillier Pickup Truck, near Tampa, Florida, last year she went to a chiropractor complaining of neck and back pain, headaches, dizziness and numbness in his arms. To try to find the reason for Ms. Hillier’s discomfort, the chiropractor sent to a medical imaging center for diagnostic tests.

The centre of two magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, tests and two computer axial tomography or CAT-scan and weighs a total of $ 1516, according to court documents. Later, insurance investigators said, another company with the same personal responsibility and address chiropractic clinic billed Ms. Hillier’s insurers, Hartford Financial Services Group, $ 5700 for the scans - a marker of 275 percent.

The insurance company contributes to a remedy that the clinic was charged in a cabinet, with the mediation medical distributors draw thousands of dollars of tests, sometimes fraudulently, by abuse of weakness in any debt insurance programs . The clinic refused Established accusations in court for lack of applications. His lawyer went to manage in an interview, unless said dass”mein customer is not wrong.”

Dire investigators brokerage hiding behind a growing number of abusive and fraudulent taxes often in the treatment of victims of car accidents in Florida. And across the country, fraud and abuse in diagnostic imaging, one of the most expensive medical procedures and automatic for the victims, is an important reason for violations of claims in several countries amounted to triple the rates of health care costs in general, experts said.

In New York, claims, the amount fired more than 30 percent last year, in part, operated by this type of diagnosis and other mogelnd fraud, “said Robert Hartwig, chief economist at the Insurance Information Institute , An industry trade group. In Florida, regulators say claims costs have increased by almost 17 per cent.

Far Federal New Jersey to California and Texas to Illinois, fraud and abuse in the context of medical care for auto accident victims cost insurers about $ 5.4 billion per year and add an average of nearly $ 35 on the annual cost for each auto insurance in America, according to Dennis Jay, executive director of the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud in Washington. In New York, says Hartwig, says this type of fraud over $ 70 for each policy.

Medical care in self-insurance is particularly vulnerable to fraud and abuse, because it is the only area of health, which are not covered by Managed Care checks. Accordingly, self-insurance out of habit, more money for medical illness and private Managed Care business, an opportunity for unscrupulous providers.

”This is how our system has evolved,’’said Uwe Reinhardt, a professor at Princeton University, who specializes in health economics. ”In auto insurance, the presumption is that the injured person should be 100 percent in total. Nobody can deny, depending on what you have with your doctor or maybe an option.”

Thanks to anyone to say no, M.R.I. Brokers, most often are independent of doctors and diagnostic centres and others bent on using the system allows lots on charges for services, managed health care, insurers simply refused. You can do this, because no permission is required for treatment and insurers are legally obliged to pay üblichen”und”Preise usual, as doctors, hospitals and others to ask - and not the lesser of much more accepting, health insurance routine and the authorities.

In case of Mrs Hillier’s, owner of the clinic chiropraktische negotiated a rate of $ 379 for each scan - that pay health insurance - but he billed Hartford in the centre of diagnosing the list price: $ 1650 each of the first MRI and CAT scan and $ 1200 for tests after a complaint filed by the insurer.

The medical costs are a particular problem in Florida, New York, New Jersey, USA and other countries without guilt assurance that the insurers to pay its receivables, whatever caused an accident - and you do Pay quickly - even if it means less checking invoices.