STOP MEDICARE FRAUD
TYPES OF MEDICARE FRAUD
When an individual or organization seeks to collect Medicare health care reimbursement under false pretenses, it is Medicare fraud. The fraud is usually carried out in one of the following three ways:
Phantom Billing: The medical provider bills Medicare for unnecessary procedures, medical test, or procedures OR procedures or tests are never performed. Sometimes unnecessary equipment or used equipment is billed as new.
Patient Billing: A patient… More
