A recent study suggests that doctors manipulating reimbursement rules so that their patients can receive the care they need is on the rise as doctors feel more pressure to provide treatment not authorized under managed-care plans. More than one of every three doctors interviewed in the study admitted to deceiving insurance companies to help patients get necessary care according to the 1998 mail survey reported in the most recent Journal of the American Medical Association.
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