German healthcare fraud "running into billions"
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Insider knowledge about prescription processing, coupled with criminal intent, costs the health service billions of Marks each year," says Christine Luer, chairperson of the Lower Saxony-based regional office of Germany's largest sickness fund, the AOK. Mrs Luer's comments were made after completion of a three-and-a-half year investigation by the AOK's "false accounting" group. The study used information from some 60 statutory health insurance funds from various German regions, including representatives of the companies', guilds' and agricultural sickness funds.