Field of schemes: Health insurance fraud in the small business sector

Social Problems

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 572-590

  Tillman, Robert ^a   Indergaard, Michael ^b  

^a ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0033229335     PISSN: 00377791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3097076     Document Type: Article

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