In April 2023, HHS-OIG issued aFederal Register noticethat it would be issuing a GCPG by the end of 2023, followed by "industry-specific" compliance program guidance, tailored to fraud and abuse risk areas for particular industry subsectors. In this notice, OIG also announced that it would ...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) earlier this week releasedGeneral Compliance Program Guidance(GCPG) applicable toallindividuals and entities involved in the healthcare industry. As discussed in a priorSidley Update, the G...
Released last week by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG), the toolkit is based on the methodologydeveloped for a report published last Septemberthat assessed providers who billed Medicare for telehealth services. The previous repo...
Process.OIG is responsible for investigating and determining instances of information blocking. TheOIG's Information Blocking siteincludes specific resources for more detail. After a determination of information blocking, OIG will refer the healthcare provider to the appropriate agency, in this case the...
such as federal fraud and abuse laws, compliance program basics, how to operate an effective compliance program, and OIG processes and resources. The GCPG will be updated as changes in compliance practices or legal requirements warrant and OIG plans to publish it by the end of the year 2023....
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regulations, use the information collected about these relationships as a tool to improve compliance efforts, integrate compliance efforts into business operations, and develop monitoring and risk-assessment programs. Here’s what the HHS-OIG senior counsel had to say about how...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Inspector General (HHS-OIG) developed the report to better understand how RPM is used and identify vulnerabilities that may limit oversight. Medicare began covering RPM in 2018, allowing healthcare providers to bill for ...
TheOIGfocuses on providing oversight to "promote the economy, efficiency, effectiveness, and integrity" of HHS programs. Former President and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the Turning Point PAC campaign rally at the Gas...
Late on Friday, June 18, 2021, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) withdrew its December 30, 2020,340B advisory opinionvia a legal filing, in an attempt to “avoid confusion and unnecessary litigation,” a week after Judge Leonard Stark denied HHS’ motion for ...