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Mediscams: Dangerous Medical Practices and Health Care Frauds--and How to Prevent Them from Harming You and Your Family
Synopsis
A crusading, award-winning investigative reporter for television and news magazines Extra, Hard Copy, and Inside edition, Chuck Whitlock leads you into the underworld of MediScams. Here medical chicanery, good intentions gone bad, and unrepentant greed combine to consume America's healthcare dollars by the billions. Are you in need? The MediScams artists are there with false promises of therapies, cures and treatments.
A shocking and unnerving book, MediScams blows the whistle on healthcare "professionals" hawking "scientifically proven" treatments that turn out to be fraudulent. Whitlock reveals the dirty secrets of health maintenance organizations and pharmaceutical houses. His expose of the mistreatment of patients and of Medicaid and Medicare fraud has shed light on the seedy underside of nursing home operations. Whitlock is relentless in his pursuit of those who abuse the publics trust. And he isn't afraid of pointing out the serious malpractice that goes on even in the offices of "respectable" physicians.
In MediScams, Whitlock gets in the face of:
- supplement manufacturers who cite only selective testing labs and portions of legitimate research to back up their fraudulent claims
- bogus plastic surgeons - particularly the enormous number who operate without licenses or medical degrees
- the research charlatans who recklessly dispense compounds, powders, pills and placebos
- the carnies and hucksters who live off dental MediScams and nursing home rip-offs
- fraudulent doctors - yours may be one of them
MediScams will scare you, but more importantly, it will make you want to take action. It will show you how easily you may be taken by those who seem to care. All true and all documented, this book is thoroughly annotated, citing the arrests and convictions of the small percentage of those who get caught. An appendix provides a comprehensive resource list of private, professional and government agencies that offer information and consumer guidance, along with agencies that help victims of fraud.
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About the Author
Chuck Whitlock is a nationally recognized investigative reporter whose investigations into white-collar crime and exposes of nursing home and Medicare irregularities have garnered him national recognition. A tireless scambuster and consumer advocate, he has appeared on such television shows as Oprah, Hard Copy, and Regis and Kathie Lee. He is currently in negotiations with Fox to air his TV show, Crimeline. Whitlock is also the author of five previous books. He lives in southwestern Washington State.
From Publishers Weekly
Maintaining a breathless pace as he relates one horror story after another, Whitlock (Scam School), an investigative reporter for Extra, Hard Copy and Inside Edition, sounds a warning to consumers about the $100-billion-a-year fraudulent medical businessAfrom bogus treatments to unlicensed practitioners, from those who perform unnecessary procedures to bottom-line-oriented managed-care systems that deny care because of cost. These scammers, he says, prey on those who are ill and vulnerable. Particularly interested in exposing fraudulent practices in plastic surgery and dentistry (an area not commonly thought of as being suspect), Whitlock had his teeth checked out by a reputable dental school and was assured that his mouth was in excellent shape. He then went undercover posting as a potential patient whose insurance would soon expire. He received six different estimates (ranging as high as $5,000) from dentists for "preventive dentistry." Whitlock also offers an indictment of profit-making nursing homes that hire unqualified attendants without checking into their background, which leads to serious abuse of the elderly in their care. (Whitlock went undercover again, posing as an inexperienced caretaker with a prison record, and was hired by an elderly-care facility.) Provocative, disturbing and, refreshingly, not sensationalist, this book offers a hard look inside the world of health care and offers specific tips that readers can use to safeguard their health. (Jan.) Forecast: According to Whitlock, 85% of Americans now have health insurance through managed-care organizationsAa huge potential market for this book that will be reached by a national media campaign, including a seven-city author tour. Simultaneous Audio Renaissance release.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherMacmillan Audio
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1559276290
- ISBN 13 9781559276290
- BindingAudio Cassette
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