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Blumenthal Seeks Penalty Hikes for Health-Care Fraud
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Business New Haven
3/5/2001
By: BNH
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HARTFORD - Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has asked the legislative Judiciary Committee to increase Connecticut's standards of culpability and penalties for health-care fraud to match existing federal laws.
Blumenthal also asked for increase state invetigative authority to combat health-care fraud. Blumenthal says that the cost of health-care fraud in Connecticut is $1.5 billion annually, and that ten percent to as much as 40 percent of all medical expenses involve fraud, costing between $1,600 and $6,000 per family of four in Connecticut each year.
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