German surgeon's fraud prompts sickness fund probe
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Fears of a nationwide witch-hunt have surfaced in Germany after the Lower Saxony office of Germany's largest sickness fund, the AOK, and several other statutory health insurance funds, agreed to repay 4,036 fund members between Euro250-350 ($218-262) each as a result of false accounting by a Luneburg surgeon. This is the first time such as repayment has happened.