>In a paper published today in the Archives of Internal
>Medicine, University of Michigan Health System
>researchers found some physicians are willing to
>misrepresent clinical information to insurance
>companies in order for their patients to receive the
>medical treatment they feel is necessary.
>
>Senior author of the paper, Peter A. Ubel, M.D.,
>associate professor of internal medicine in the
>University of Michigan Medical School and research
>investigator at the Ann Arbor Veterans Administration
>Medical Center, says he's not surprised.