Healthcare Fraud Driving Organized Crime: Examining Sources of Illicit Income
This session will familiarize investigators with the connection between healthcare fraud schemes and financial crimes, and fraud’s increasing importance in organized crime. This webinar will examine case study examples and provide effective techniques for detecting, preventing and responding to healthcare fraud, as well as practical advice for leveraging law enforcement partnerships in support of identification and recovery of misappropriated assets.
RecordedJul 26 201756 mins
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