Healthcare Administration Leadership & Management Journal
Healthcare Enforcement Laws and Federal Healthcare Employment Laws: What Would Physicians be Prudent to Learn?
Healthcare organizations of every size must comply with an exponentially increasing, convoluted regulatory environment that directly impacts the medical practice of physicians. Physicians need to understand how fraud, waste, abuse, and federal employment laws introduce risk into their daily practice of medicine.
July/August 2023 Vol. 1, No. 3 pp. 136–138 DOI: 10.55834/halmj.4693920151
Abstract
It is incumbent upon physicians to become knowledgeable regarding healthcare enforcement and employment laws. Federal regulatory policies directly impact how physicians practice medicine, and transgression of these laws can lead to loss of license, exclusion from CMS payments, fines, and civil and criminal penalties. Contravention of federal employment laws can result in similar devastating penalties. This article aims to equip the reader with a preliminary understanding of these complex laws. The interested reader will need to take a deeper dive into the weeds of healthcare enforcement and employment law.
