First Healthcare Compliance The Fundamentals, Second Edition is a comprehensive resource designed to help physicians, compliance professionals and other healthcare professionals in private practice, hospital networks and health systems, healthcare billing companies and skilled nursing facilities comply with federal rules and regulations and to better understand their compliance responsibilities at a time of heightened scrutiny and increased regulations. The book addresses the four major areas of healthcare compliance regulations: HIPAA, OSHA, federal waste and abuse laws, and federal employment laws. It can be used as a stand-alone resource or as a companion guide to the First Healthcare Compliance The Fundamentals online course.