As the health system bent under the weight of the COVID-19 pandemic, bad actors used this opportunity to devise schemes to extract money from the system through fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA)—and despite the pandemic’s unprecedented nature, their schemes largely utilized the same tactics as previous years. Based on our experience, we’ve outlined three common schemes special investigative units (SIUs) should expect to see persist in 2022 and how to combat them.
