Everyone agrees that
medical fraud may well be one of the nation's most serious crime
problems. But no one had ever examined what the federal government
actually was doing to combat it. So Peter Eisler explored TRACFED's
data on medical fraud prosecutions and then sought out the responsible
officials. Prosecutions of health fraud had indeed tripled in
the last few years, but they still represented only 1 percent
of the total criminal matters handled by the government. Eisler's
front-page article on the subject ran on February 23, 1999.
