Try: Carried out by unethical doctors nurses hospital personnel and other professional care providers examples of healthcare fraud and abuse regarding elders include not providing healthcare but charging for it overcharging or double-billing for medical care or services getting kickbacks for referrals to other providers or for prescribing certain drugs overmedicating or undermedicating recommending fraudulent remedies for illnesses or other medical conditions medicaid fraud problems with the care facility poorly trained poorly paid or insufficient staff crowding inadequate responses to questions about care signs of healthcare fraud and abuse duplicate billings for the same medical service or device evidence of overmedication or undermedication evidence of inadequate care when bills are paid in full information references "elder abuse and neglect warning signs risk factors prevention and help" by laurence robinson tina de benedictis and jeanne segal 2011 available at

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