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Provider Exclusion Screening / OIG Screening Practices are a Significant Risk

Medicare, Medicaid & Private Payor Updates /

(December 11, 2010): Has your practice conducted exclusion screening / OIG screening on all of you employees?Earlier this week, HHS-OIG announced that it had assessed significant civil monetary penalties against a health care provider that employed seven individuals who the provider “knew or should have known” had been excluded from participation in Federal health care […]

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Multiple Texas Health Care Providers and Suppliers Charged in DOJ’s June 2024 Strike Force Takedown

HEAT Strike Force, Medicare, Medicaid & Private Payor Updates /

(July 11, 2024): Last week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it has criminally charged 193 defendants with violations of various health care fraud statutes. The government estimates that the fraudulent schemes employed by the defendants resulted in losses of $1.6 billion to Federal, State, and private payor health care programs. These cases are

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