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by dtech 2734 days ago
You're right that "patient"-doctor fraud is unlikely, but receiving unnecessary medication (addictive/fun/valuable drugs) or medical people overcharging or charging for unperformed or unnecessary procedures is a possibility for fraud.
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But the personnel are salaried, not paid per procedure.
Most hospitals have on-call work, overtime, outsourced work, consumables that can be billed for etc. Pay cheques vary a huge amount depending on work done, and as a radiographer in a regional hospital my yearly wage was more than half made up by penal rates and overtime.