Amendment of civil monetary penalty (CMP) statute to curtail and eliminate fraud and abuse; Increase in CMP amount per wrongful act; Addition of a new CMP for claims for medically unnecessary items or services that are part of a pattern of such claims; Incorporation of a statutory definition ...
The Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently issued a pair of proposed regulations to update its exclusion and civil monetary penalty (CMP) authority. The proposed regulations implement new authority provided by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as well as ...
OIG Issues First Proposed CMP Safe Harbor.Reports that the United States Health and Human Services Department's Office of Inspector General issued a proposed safe harbor to the civil monetary penalty (CMP) provisions of the Social Security Act. Modification of the provisions with the Health ...