Question

State what actions you would have taken for each event in order to prevent these embezzlement schemes from occuring.

1. Doctors who billed Medicare for services not provided.

2. An outside collection agent that did not send all cash collected from overdue patients to the hospital.

3. Employees who falsified travel expenses or added hours to time cards not worked.

Answer 1

1. Inorder to prevent doctors from billing for treatments not provided, we need to demand a bill after every treatment given to us and based on this bill only we should ask the doctors to claim the amount. These bills will also make them work correctly as we have proof to what they have provided and what they did not. Taking bills is always a good step which makes the process go in a smooth way.

2. Trusting outside collection agents is not a good idea. We need to consult only the authorised person in the hospital for our treatment or appointment even if we are overdue. We can go tot he hospital and if required can pay the fine . If not we need to ask for a bill from the agent so thatwe can have proof for our payment. If we do not take these steps and if the agent did not pay th emoney to the hospital we can be held responsible.

3.Travel expenses and time cards are often tampered with and employees try to show more than what they actually need. Inorder to prevent this rules must be made strict . For travel expenses the company need to verify the bills submitted by the employees or provide shuttle service tot he employees so that travel expenses need not be provided. Job card entries must be noted time to time and they must be verified with the help of video cameras and system login and logout times. This will give us their exact working hours.