The United States spends over $1 trillion dollars on healthcare annually through Medicare and loses billions of dollars to healthcare fraud each year. Healthcare fraud involves deceiving healthcare payors, such as Medicare and Medicaid, for illegal financial gain. Examples of healthcare fraud include:

• billing for medically unnecessary services, 
• upcoding services for higher financial reimbursements, 
• illegal kickbacks for referrals, or
• billing for fake services that were never rendered.