Fraud Paper Topics
January, 2003
Topics approved:
Buitron - Resume fraud involving false educational
credentials
Cafaro - Mortgage fraud using false appraisals
Conde - slip and fall personal injury fraud
Dunning - Auto insurance fraud involving staged accidents
Faya - How Jackson Memorial Hospital can better monitor, detect and prevent patient
financial eligibility fraud
Goldman - Hospital's role in preventing identity theft
Gordon - Medicaid fraud by billing for services not received for in-home health care
Mungo - Employee Drug Testing Fraud in the Hospital Setting
Perez - Chapter 11 bankruptcy fraud involving hidden assets
Poag - How companies can protect themselves from false workers' compensation claims
Powell - Pharmacy Medicaid fraud perpetuated through short filling prescriptions
Rodriguez - Fraud against business using stolen credit cards
Sanders - Preventing employees from soliciting company customers for their own business
Tamayo - How drug companies buy research studies
Ventura - Divorce fraud involving self-employed
individuals using skimming to reduce income
Wilkinson - Prescription drug fraud by nurses through theft of patient prescribed
medications
Ideas for topics:
Employee theft of inventory using fraud in retail stores
Internet fraud selling products to organizations
Vendor fraud using false financials
Vendor kickback fraud
Government contract fraud using bid-rigging
Commercial contract fraud involving fraudulent change orders
Insurance fraud using code-splitting
Register schemes in retail stores
Vendor fraud using shell companies
Check fraud using counterfeit payroll checks
Fraud against third party payors using ghost (either real people not there or fictitious people) patients in hospitals (or nursing homes, clinics, etc. - pick one)
Fraud through knowingly prescribing and billing unneeded tests and treatments in (pick one, clinics, hospitals, rehabilitation centers, etc.)
How an investor can protect against vending machine and ATM machine investment frauds
Avoiding work-at-home investment scams
What a public company audit committee can do to prevent fraudulent financial statements
Designing internal controls to assure integrity in financial statements
How brokerage firms can prevent their investment advisors from churning customer accounts
Food stamp fraud by grocery stores allowing redemption for the purchase of cigarettes, beer and other non-eligible items
- R. S. Kulzick - last revised 1/04/2003 -