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notis

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Contrast and compare the concepts of fraud and abuse.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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What is Tricare?
 
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Reply #1 on: Jun 27, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: Tricare is health insurance for the families of activity duty personnel. It also covers retired military personnel and their families.


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Reply 2 on: Jun 27, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)

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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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