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.
A fault is a crack in the Earth's crust. Typically, faults are associated with, or form, the boundaries between Earth's tectonic plates. In an active fault, the pieces of the Earth's crust along a fault move over time. The moving rocks can cause earthquakes. Inactive faults had movement along them at one time, but no longer move. The type of motion along a fault depends on the type of fault. The main types of faults are described below.