The more opaque the fee arrangement the greater the risk of overcharges.

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The only explanation for the overcharges and abuses related to these services is the bundled fee custodial relationship into which pensions have been steered.

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It also could be for running their ad auctions in an unfair, opaque, or deceptive manner resulting in overcharges or other harms to advertisers.

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Edison owed its customers for overcharges related to the kickback scheme.

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Health Data Insights helps health care payers cut back on overcharges via a sophisticated algorithm-based system that flags likely errors and brings them to the attention of trained technicians.

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The first phase of the audit focused on potential overcharges associated with the fraudulent transactions identified by federal investigators and an assessment of the internal controls surrounding the fraudulent transactions.

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"Therefore, it would be completely wrong to say or imply that any of these costs that were incurred at the client's direction for its benefit are 'overcharges', " the spokeswoman, Cathy Mann, said.

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That includes an expansion of the False Claims Act that gives consumers an incentive to pick through old bills and see if their doctors have failed to return Medicare overcharges within 60 days, or recycle previously disclosed information as a lucrative whistleblower claim.

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In 2009, the New York State Public Service Commission retained Charles River Associates, a management consulting firm based in Boston, MA, to perform a two-phase investigative accounting audit to determine how much money Con Edison owed to its customers for overcharges for the period 2000 to 2009.

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