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By Paul Jesilow, Henry N. Pontell, and Gilbert Geis. 247 pp. Berkeley, Calif., University of California Press, 1993. $25. ISBN 0-520-07614-1.

Medicaid fraud is one of the more sordid moral lapses to which physicians have succumbed. Its detection, prosecution, and prevention are in the interests of both the public and the profession. Yet its magnitude, economic impact, and genesis are not as precisely known as they should be. This book attempts to redress that deficiency -- with mixed success.

The authors focus on three sources of information in two states (New York and California): interviews with enforcement agents, excerpts from their investigative files, and interviews with physicians punished for misconduct and physicians never punished.

The composite picture that emerges is one . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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