E-Training: Fraud

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Benjamin Franklin  

The purpose of this e-training was to eliminate false claims to the government for medicare or Medicaid.  It is really pretty scary, as fraud can happen in any number of ways.  For the most part fraud is deliberately trying to bilk the government of money by, for example billing for a procedure that is not medically necessary, or billing for something twice, or billing for something and not documenting the service or providing the service.  However sometimes fraud can take place if you do something outside the pounds, but should have known the proper way to do things.  This is scarier, and makes it important to know the proper bounds and expectations for when you are billing, such as the requirements for documentation to verify medically necessity is met.