I. Physician Relationships with Payers Introduction. The five most important Federal fraud and abuse laws that apply to physicians are the False Claims Act (FCA), the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS), the Physician Self-Referral Law (Stark law), the Exclusion Authorities, and the Civil Monetary Penalties Law (CMPL).he AKS is a criminal law that prohibits the knowing and willful payment of remuneration to induce or reward patient referrals or the generation of business involving any item or service payable by the Federal health care programs (e.g., drugs, supplies, or health care services for Medicare or Medicaid patients).
â¢ FAULT LINE (noun). The noun FAULT LINE has 1 sense: 1. (geology) line determined by the intersection of a geological fault and the earth's surface. Familiarity information: FAULT LINE used as a noun is very rare. FAULT LINE (noun). The noun FAULT LINE has 1 sense: 1. (geology) line determined by the intersection of a geological fault and the earth's surface. Familiarity information: FAULT LINE used as a noun is very rare.
faulting - (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other; they built it right over a geological fault; he studied the faulting of the earth's crust. geological fault, fracture, break, fault, shift. 1  geology - a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks. 2  fault line - (geology) line determined by the intersection of a geological fault and the earth's surface. 3  crack, scissure, cleft, crevice, fissure - a long narrow opening.