Question

Sally Fuller is a buyer for GWA publishing company. Her job is to purchase supplies and services for the printing of technical manuals. Her brother sets up a printing company, and Sally hires him to print most of these manuals for GWA. However, rather than actually printing the manuals, her brother hires another printer to do the work, then sells the printed manuals to GWA at a 50 percent markup. As a result, his prices are much higher than the other printers who serve GWA. This type of scheme is most likely a:_______.
A. Pay-and-return scheme.
B. Pass-through scheme.
C. Inventory-markup scheme.
D. Non-accomplice.

Answer 1

Answer:

B. Pass-through scheme.

Explanation:

Pass-through Billing: Pass-through billing schemes occur when a provider, such as a physician or hospital, pays a laboratory to perform their tests and then files the claims as though they had performed the tests themselves.