Under the Medicare programme, incidents or practises that are not usually considered fraudulent but are inconsistent with accepted sound medical business or fiscal practises (e.g., billing for noncovered services, excessive charges, improper billing practises, billing Medicare beneficiaries at a higher rate than other patients, submitting bills to Medicare instead of to primary third-party payers, billing for medically unnecessary services, violating the Medicare particpation agreement, billing for medically unnecessary services, violating the Medicare particpation agreement and billing for medically unnecessary services.