Using the provider number of another physician Up coding Routine waiver of co-payment and deductibles regardless of need.
Abuse involves medical, fiscal, and business practices.
If a service is not consistent with common business or standards of care in oncology, then you can be accused of abuse. Abuse does not have to be intentional. Billing the highest level laboratory panel for the vast majority of patients. Although this practice is most often unintentional, if physicians order higher-level laboratory panels for a majority of their patients, they must be sure they can justify the medical necessity of doing so. Many clinics and practices believe that this practice is acceptable because Medicare covers injectable drugs.