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Re: $10,000 fine for an honest coding error!From: Mats Bergstrom (matsb@sos.sll.se)Fri Jun 7 18:44:40 1996
<In answer to a longish forward against/by the Kennedy office.> In European perspective, whatever the crime, the punishment scale in the US, especially for 'victimless' crimes, seems ridiculous. Of course, every convicted felon doesn't serve full term, but this is obviously very dependent on the kind of lawyer the felon can afford. The scam with cattle futures that Hillary Clinton participated in (the broker setting up polarity options with the winning option going to the Clintons and the loosing ones to the briber - anybody got an URL for that talked about cartoon where Hillary is looking into the crystal ball and a thaught balloon is showing grazing cattle?) is such a 'victimless' crime, punishable with several years as Bubba's partner (albeit a crime which is very hard for prosecutors to prove, especially when the logs have been 'accidentally' lost). In this perspective, a $10.000 fine for a *deliberate* coding error (like changing a DRG from a $1,000 to a $10,000 one perhaps) doesn't seem to be that outrageous. Of course, if a coding error is deliberate or accidental is extremely hard to demonstrate. I guess you have to choose your counsel. :-)
-- Mats Bergstrom
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