If you have been told that you need abdominal paracentesis, you probably have fluid building up in your abdominal cavity. You may be wondering how paracentesis is done, when it is necessary, and the risks associated with having this procedure.
Abusive marketing, is when your marketing pitch or marketing endeavor actually offends people. For example there are a ton of advertisements on tv now that actually are comical, it seems the new best way to get a consumers attention. A good representation of abusive marketing would be if one of those ads actually making a farce of a topic to the point that it offends someone in a legitimate way.
Abuse involves substandard, negligent or medically unnecessary practices that increase the cost of health care. Abusive practices often indicate fraud. Fraud and abuse, widespread in both the public and private health care sectors, account for 3 percent to 10 percent of Medicaid payments nationwide. Among 28 federal programs examined by the U.S. General Accountability Office in 2007, Medicaid had the highest number of improper payments.