Concentrated government efforts to prosecute fraud, and corporate sentencing guidelines, make compliance programs necessary for health care organizations

Article Abstract:

Estimates are that as much as 10% of the very high amount of US health care spending is lost to fraudulent practices and so the government is stepping up efforts to combat health care fraud. The government will reduce sentences and at times abandon criminal prosecutions entirely if there is evidence that a corporate compliance program is in place. This program must be implemented in accordance with criteria established under the US sentencing guidelines. Such programs are detailed.

Analysis, Corporations, Crime, Health services administration

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Sentencing guidelines aid in law

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Judge Jose Cabranes feels that the sentencing guidelines are a failed experiment, but according to research, the pre-guidelines system often resulted in disparate and unfair sentences. Even though judicial discretion has been diminished by the guidelines, judges now sentence with a greater degree of uniformity and honesty. The Sentencing Commission surveyed 1,800 judges of which 40% believed sentencing disparity had gone down.

Criminal justice, Administration of, Administration of criminal justice

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This chief judge likes sentencing guidelines

Article Abstract:

The US Sentencing Guidelines still need improvement, but they have made sentencing much less irrational and personal than before. Criminal law judges spend much of their time on sentencing, and personal issues have no place in this process. Although imposing some uniformity on the process is their main contribution, judges should not expect all sentences to conform to one uniform national pattern.

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