But experts believe far more money is siphoned by employers that illegally underpay premiums by underreporting the size of their work force or by doctors who fabricate bills.
In a lawsuit filed by the United States attorney in Philadelphia, the Justice Department contends that Medco destroyed and fabricated records, billed clients for more pills than it delivered and switched patients to higher-cost medications in an effort to increase the company's revenue.
The authorities said that Mr. Bradway, who has variously said he is 38 and 45, fabricated medical bills as proof of the boy's conditionand kept him from eating meat, fruits and vegetables to make him look sickly.
Because the bills include fabricated diagnoses, investigators and industry officials said, patients are listed without their knowledge in insurance company computers with ailments they have never had.
They said Beverly inflated the number of hours nurses spent caring for Medicare patients at 10 nursing homes in California and elsewhere, and submitted phony nurse sign-in sheets and other fabricated documents to support the bills.
In one, we gave respondents the same valuation task but presented them with an image of one of the following two dollar bills: It takes most people a moment to see that the bill on top is real and that the bill below it is fabricated.
George Clooney has said that Hello! magazine "completely fabricated" an interview with him which they billed as "exclusive".
And, more recently, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity paid a lobbying firm to send forged letters to members of Congress from actual nonprofit groups, including the NAACP and the American Association of University Women, espousing fabricated opposition to a 2009 climate change bill.
They destroyed my studio, they put me in secret detention and they fabricated a crime that put a 15m yuan tax bill on me.
This essentially means that Texas' bill would be targeting trans people to address a fabricated security threat, according to Keisling.
The accompanying paper trail that shows bills of sale, liquidation papers and letters, they add, was later fabricated or distorted to mask illicit dealings.
