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Taking the pulse on telehealth scams
The Justice Department has been cracking down on fraud enabled by telehealth platforms, charging dozens of defendants with conducting schemes involving referrals for unnecessary tests and medical equipment — with losses exceeding $1 billion. Telehealth advocates, including the American Telemedicine Association’s vice president of public policy, say those releases have created an “overblown” sense of telehealth’s risks, and that virtual care isn’t more prone to billing fraud than in-person visits.
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