Fraud, Waste, and Abuse – What They Don’t Teach You in Dental School

AGD Course Code: 565 (Documentation and Risk Management)

Course Description: Federal and state laws significantly impact dental practices by ensuring accurate billing practices, ethical marketing efforts, and compliant business structures. Failure to abide by these laws can result in fines, disciplinary actions, civil lawsuits, and even criminal sanctions. This course will use real world case studies to offer dentists and their staff tools to protect their practice, patients, and professional licenses from legal and financial risks associated with applicable fraud, waste, and abuse laws.

Course Objections: Upon the completion of this course, the dental professional should be able to:

1. Understand some of the key laws and legal concepts that exist at the federal and state levels that govern billing and marketing laws, as well as unlawful business relationships.
2. Recognize scenarios that place the dental professional’s risk of violating the law.
3. Implement practices that mitigate the dental professional’s risk from violating applicable laws.