According to the TaxPayers Against Fraud Education Fund, common types of medical related fraud and other frauds that have led to False Claims Act recoveries include:

Billing and finance:
- Drug billing fraud
  - Billing for non-FDA approved drugs or devices
  - Billing for brand — billing for brand-named drugs when generic drugs are actually provided
  - Billing for unlicensed or unapproved drugs
  - Unbundling – Submitting multiple billing codes instead of one billing code for a drug panel test in order to increase remuneration
- Employee billing fraud
  - Phantom employees and doctored time slips: charging for employees that were not actually on the job, or billing for made-up hours in order to maximize reimbursements
  - Upcoding employee work: billing at doctor rates for work that was actually conducted by a nurse or resident intern
- Billing for work not performed or work not contracted for
  - Billing for goods and services that were never delivered or rendered
  - Billing for work or tests not performed
  - Billing for marketing, lobbying or other non-contract related corporate activities
  - Billing for research that was never conducted
- Improper billing for work partially or fully performed
  - Double billing – charging more than once for the same goods or service
  - Being overpaid by the government for sale of a good or service, and then not reporting that overpayment
  - Shifting expenses from one fixed-price contract to another
  - Billing for premium equipment but actually providing inferior equipment
  - Billing in order to increase revenue instead of billing to reflect actual work performed
  - Bundling — billing more for a panel of tests when a single test was asked for
  - Upcoding – Inflating bills by using diagnosis billing codes that suggest a more expensive illness or treatment
  - Falsifying research data that was paid for by the U.S. government
False evidence, false records, false results
- Testing
  - Presenting broken or untested equipment as operational and tested
  - Defective testing – certifying that something has passed a test, when in fact it has not
  - Automatically running a lab test whenever the results of some other test fall within a certain range, even though the second test was not specifically requested
- Product performance
  - Failing to report known product defects in order to be able to continue to sell or bill the government for the product
  - Submitting false service records or samples in order to show better-than-actual performance
  - Falsifying natural resource production records — pumping, mining or harvesting more natural resources from public lands that is actually reported to the government
  - Misrepresenting the value of imported goods or their country of origin for tariff purposes
- Additional misrepresentations
  - Performing inappropriate or unnecessary medical procedures in order to increase Medicare reimbursement
  - Forging physician signatures when such signatures are required for reimbursement from Medicare or Medicaid
  - False certification that a contract falls within certain guidelines (i.e. the contractor is a minority or veteran)
  - “Lick and stick” prescription rebate fraud and “marketing the spread” prescription fraud, both of which involve lying to the government about the true wholesale price of prescription drugs
Kickbacks
- Illegal marketing of prescription drugs and devices through kickbacks
- Winning a contract through kickbacks or bribes
- Prescribing a medicine or recommending a type of treatment or diagnosis regimen in order to win kickbacks from hospitals, labs, or pharmaceutical companies

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