How to protect your organization from penalties and exclusions?

The Civil Money Penalties Law (CMPL) gives the authorization power to the Secretary of Health and Human Services to enforce civil money penalties, an assessment, and program exclusion for different forms of fraud and abuse, which includes the Medicaid and Medicare programs. The monetary sanctions imposed usually exceed the damages sustained by the government.

As a health care executive, physician or other health care provider, one should be very concerned about the potential for liability under the fraud and abuse laws. Under recently enacted health care laws, enforcement activity and health care fraud task forces have been greatly enhanced. This raises the specter of being charged with false and fraudulent activity and being sanctioned and or being excluded from these programs under the Civil Monetary Penalties Law. Learn more on Civil Monetary Penalties Law at  http://bit.ly/CivilMonetaryPenaltiesLaw