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Inside Health Care Fraud

This week, Assistant Director Ken Kaiser and other Bureau execs briefed reporters on health care fraud, a burgeoning billion-dollar crime plague that essentially costs you money every time you walk into a hospital or doctor's office or fill a prescription, whether you know it or not.
 

While the information can include potentially anything about the individual's employment, credit, or past history, the most common usage of background checks refers to criminal records.