Health care fraud includes health insurance fraud,
drug fraud, and
medical fraud. Health insurance fraud occurs when a company or an individual defrauds an insurer or government health care program, such as
Medicare (United States) or equivalent State programs. The manner in which this is done varies, and persons engaging in fraud are always seeking new ways to circumvent the law. Damages from fraud can be recovered by use of the
False Claims Act, most commonly under the
qui tam provisions which rewards an individual for being a "
whistleblower", or
relator (law).