Geis G, Jesilow P, Pontell H, O'Brien M J
Am J Psychiatry. 1985 Feb;142(2):231-4. doi: 10.1176/ajp.142.2.231.
Government rosters of physicians suspended from the Medicare and Medicaid programs because of fraud and abuse indicate that psychiatrists form a disproportionately large segment of the total. Of the factors contributing to this situation, the most notable is that because psychiatrists charge for time rather than for services, they are more readily apprehended if they violate the rules. The authors speculate on whether in fact psychiatrists break the law more than physicians in other-specialties or whether the statistics are purely artifactual.
政府列出的因欺诈和滥用行为而被医疗保险和医疗补助计划停职的医生名单显示，精神科医生在总数中所占比例过高。在导致这种情况的因素中，最值得注意的是，由于精神科医生按时间收费而非按服务收费，如果他们违反规定，就更容易被抓住。作者推测，实际上精神科医生违法的情况是否比其他专科医生更多，或者这些统计数据是否纯粹是人为的。
