Based on public data from the Office of Inspector General and General Accounting Office, the most common health care provider fraud activities are:
- Fraudulent billing, duplicate billing, and billing for services not medically needed: 46 percent
- Falsified claims schemes, which usually involve the use of fake medical personas and identify theft: 25.5 percent
- Kickbacks: 20 percent
- Prescribing unnecessary medications: 10.8 percent
- Upcoding: 2 percent
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