When a patient has no symptoms of a disease and the provider performs the tests for that disease at the patient's request, the provider has committed which of these fraudulent coding and billing practices?
A. Reporting services that were not performed
B. Reporting services at a higher level than was carried out
C. Performing procedures not related to the patient's condition
D. Billing separately for services that are bundled in a single procedure code
E. Reporting the same service twice
C. Performing procedures not related to the patient's condition
Procedures that are not related to the patient's current condition are considered not medically necessary.
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