Which of the following is not a reason that Medicare fraud is difficult to estimate?
A. Dollar amounts spent in a single incident of fraud are increasing.
B. Sometimes a claim is partially fraudulent and partially accurate.
C. Health care claims are destroyed after 2 years.
D. Statistics from prior years are not always accurate.
E. Fraud is hard to detect.
Answer: C
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