Question

These are examples of issues that should be reported to a Compliance Department: suspected Fraud, Waste, and Abuse (FWA); potential health privacy violation, and unethical behavior/employee misconduct. True or False?

Answer 1

True

Explanation -  FWA is also referred as Fraud, Waste and Abuse. Fraud is done purposefully to gain money. Waste includes excessive use of services that avoids using money in a meaningful way whereas abuse includes the actions that leads to unnecessary and excessive use of money to the medicine program.

The examples like potential health, violation of privacy and unethical behavior or employee misconduct should be complained to Compliance Department or Supervisor under FWA. In order to find out FWA, we should understand the laws.