Pay close attention to the four types of occupational crime in our textbook on page 18. Also pay close attention to the Tickner and Button article (Deconstructing the Origins of the Fraud Triangle) in your weekly lesson on the Fraud Triangle. Tickner and Button state that in order for an individual to commit fraud, “a perceived pressure, a perceived opportunity to commit the fraud and the ability to rationalise the fraudulent behaviour to make it acceptable” must be present. Now, think back to the four types of occupational fraud. Take type three (Crimes committed by professionals in their profes-sional capacity) or four (Occupational crimes committed by individuals for personal gain), which we will spend a lot of time discussing this semester) and think about a healthcare professional. What types of crimes do you think physicians, pharmacists, nurses or other professional commit and what would be the “pressure, opportunity and rationalization” that a healthcare professional would say as the reason the crime was committed? Do you think the Fraud Triangle explains healthcare fraud, as least as popularized in our culture or say, on Netflix? So, basically, for this discussion, find a “healthcare crime” on your own (or the Villegas-Ortega et al. and the Reinhart, et al. articles in the Weekly Lesson folder give you many examples of healthcare fraud), explain the crime and explain why you think the Fraud Triangle as described by Tickner and Buttons works or does not work.
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