Question

Summarize and list the elements of the following:

1) Medical Fraud

2)Assault and Battery

3)Defamation of Character

Answer 1

1.Medical fraud is one of the health care fraud . In which the patient is made victim of unnecessary charges without getting the services mentioned , high investigation charges , poor medicare insurance provided by hospital etc . The following comes in the Medicare fraud :-

- Knowingly submitting or causing to be submitted, false claims or making misinterpretation of facts to obtain a federal health care payment for which no entitlement would otherwise exists.

- making prohibited referrals to certain designated health care services .

- knowingly receiving ,paying , offering renumeration to induce or referral to designated health care services for rewards and reimbursed by federal health programs.

2. Assualt and battery both of them are violent crimes . Assualt is the threat of violence( physical or threat to property ).

Battery is physical threat . It is the unlawful touching or physical contact to harm the individual.

3. Defamation of character - defamation is a civil wrong . It is described as a false statementade against and individual to harm or affect his reputation in the society . It is of two types :-

- written defamation which is known as libel

- spoken defamation which is known as slander.