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Insurance Fraud allegations should be a concern for all Delaware health care providers, given the aggressive manner in which insurance companies operate to investigate and prosecute these claims, and further given the lack of reliability of patients who are often called on to convey treatment information to the insurance company investigators. One simple way to document patient visits and treatment rendered is to have the patient sign their daily chart note at the time of service. In this way, providers can assure themselves that they are being proactive and practicing defensively so as to prevent false charges of over-billing and other types of fraud.