Amazon.com description: Product Description: Through a collaboration with the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA), the AMA is proud to provide you the definitive resource to easily understand the laws and quickly and effectively implement best practices to ensure consistent compliance with federal fraud and abuse laws and reduce liability to your practice.

Billing errors that violate federal fraud and abuse laws can have devastating consequences for a physician practice, including significant fines, criminal penalties and permanent exclusion from Medicare, Medicaid and other federal government health care programs.

Avoiding Fraud and Abuse in the Medical Office provides the tools you need to make immediate changes and create systems that will help sustain a compliant practice, affording the physician and allied health professionals more time to focus on the most important aspect of your practice--the patient.