Criminal law examples in healthcare

Criminally prosecuting the healthcare provider nearest to the patient harm is an inadequate solution given the complexity of the healthcare system and the number of departments and clinicians interacting to provide care to a single patient; it is not protecting society as a whole, as criminal law is intended to do.

We took a look at some of the biggest legal cases brought against docs.
Here are five of them from 2019.
An Ohio critical care doctor, Husel was indicted in June and charged with 25 counts of murder for allegedly intentionally ordering fatal drug overdoses in the deaths of hospitalized patients.
He has pleaded not guilty.

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).

Recently, there are some developments within the criminal law that concern the healthcare sector.
Examples are: