The ER has been aptly called the “front door” to the hospital.1 ER patients account for 70% of all hospital admissions.2 It is no surprise that the ER is also the focus of lucrative fraud schemes.

A woman in Florida called 911 to report a man "trying to open the door to her house," and two ... and they took McMillian to the hospital. There, an officer wrote, “I asked what he was doing ...