Typically you would present information to the Health and Human Services Office or Office of the Inspector General (OIG) hotline. For Medicare fraud, reports are often made to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS. The goal is typically to persuade agents there to intervene ...
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In 1998, the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services began issuing voluntary, compliance program guidance for various segments of the healthcare industry. Recently, the OIG has...more
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Report on Hospice Quality of Care provides for the Office of Inspector General to consider recommendations for increasing hospice responsibility related to the potential incidence of abuse. 6.5.2 Health information and records (EHR) and AI in home health, nursing homes, and hospice care Home health...
However, in a recent study, the Office of Inspector General identified a rise in fraud, waste, and abuse related to telehealth services for Medicare beneficiaries. In the study, the OIG found that: 1,714 providers out of 742,000 that billed for Medicare-related telehealth services pose a hig...
accurate patient data no matter where the patient has previously received care. With such a system in place, clinicians can make better decisions and provide better care, patients can take ownership of their data and care options, community leaders can act on early warning signs of public health...
The U.S. Department of Justice, the HHS-Office of Inspector general and State Attorneys’ General all...moreFalse Claims Act Settlements to Know from Q2 2024 Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 7/12/2024 Halfway through 2024, the government’s False Claims Act (FCA) enforcement efforts show few...
As industry veterans are well aware, liberalization and increasing reimbursement typically are accompanied by new opportunities for fraud, waste, and abuse along with an almost inevitable upswing in audit and enforcement activity. Indeed, in early 2021, the Office of Inspector General, Department of ...
Traditionally, the Office of the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“OIG”) would take a hard stance on any arrangements that might involve some form of remuneration from a hospital to a referring physician, but the winds of change may be blowing. In ...