For fraudsters, COVID-19 is the sound of opportunity knocking

Fraud is often used as a generic term for violations for the False Claims Act, Anti-Kickback Statute and the Physician Self-Referral Law, commonly referred to as the Stark Law. [...]commercial payers often won't work with a provider excluded from Medicare. In 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General released a report identifying 1,714 providers considered high-risk Medicare billers in 2020.