Contrast and compare the concepts of fraud and abuse
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Fraud is knowingly billing for services that were never provided or billing for a service that has a higher reimbursement that the service that was actually provided. Abuse is mistakenly accepting payment for items or services that should not be paid for by Medicare due to improper coding and billing practices.
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