In this five-part podcast series, sponsor by Affiliated Monitors, Inc., I visit with Jesse Caplan, Managing Director at AMI on emerging issues in healthcare compliance and monitoring. Healthcare provider organizations and practices face many different types of potential regulatory and liability risks and we explore several of them in this series. In this first episode we focus on the risks posed by opioid prescribing. We consider what are the risks to providers and health care organizations from opioid prescribing? What has been the response of the Department of Justice? What are legislators and regulators doing to address the opioid crisis? The legal and regulatory framework impacting opioid prescribing? What should be the primary compliance concerns for healthcare organizations in connection with the opioid crisis?