Question about earning $1,500.00 per week from home.

Factual Questions
1

I have a good friend who’s wife works from home and earns $1,500.00 per week. He said that she works for a company that investigates insurance fraud. Here are the basics of what she does as near as I can tell:

a. Every day she is faxed five to seven “jobs” of people who are suspected of committing health insurance fraud (often but not always work comp related). She gets a social security number, name, DOB and some information about their claim.

b. She then calls various health care providers to determine if they have had past treatment for the things they say they have suffered.

c. She then drives her results (for some reason they won’t accept faxes) into work each afternoon and gets paid $60.00 per job.

d. She works five days per week and has only a high school education (although she did serve as an executive assistant for her father who owns a chain of local pizza places).

I don’t want to ask my friend too many more questions as I am afraid that he will think I’m trying to take her job. However, I would like to know what the title for this activity is, and how one goes about obtaining similar employment! I would also like to know how she get any information in light of the new HIPPA privacy legislation. It sure sounds like much less work than nursing (and better pay)!

2

That is the best cover story I’ve ever heard an Avon Lady come up with.

3

As far as I know, she can’t. Though IANAL, I am a health-care provider (in a manner of speaking), and I can’t tell anybody anything without a Release of Information or a court order.

4

Is it possible that some of the deatils are wrong? My sister used to work for a state agency that provided worker’s comp insurance. Her job was to investigate claims. She did a lot of field work - she didn’t just call health care providers, she checked out the workplace, and sometimes did surveillance on claimants. She wasn’t paid on a per job basis , but made about $900 a week and only appeared at her office once a week or so.

5

I can see a woman staying at home, making $1,500 a week by using the phone and getting $60 per job.

It wouldn’t be in the health field however.:smiley:

6

I dunno, couldn’t you phrase it “stress relief” and consider it a medical service?