State Health Benefits Plan targeted in fraud case

October 2, 2017

For most public employees, New Jerseyโ€™s State Health Benefits Plan is some of the best health coverage in the country. But for those looking to commit insurance fraud in the program, which costs taxpayers more than $2.5 billion annually, it is something else.

Itโ€™s an easy target.

โ€œIt smells of cheese for rats,โ€ Marc Pfeiffer, assistant director of the Bloustein Local Government Research Center at Rutgers University, said of the plan.

The Press of Atlantic City, October 1, 2017

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