Providers may refer to the Work Plan issued each year by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General (OIG) to obtain guidance into enforcement priorities for the coming year. In the last issue we summarized provisions of the 2012 Work Plan that relate to hospitals and physicians.

This article focuses on both the Medicare and Medicaid provisions in the 2012 OIG Work Plan that apply to long-term care facilities, hospices, and providers of home- and community- based services (HCBS). The discussion is organized into “new” and “continuing” initiatives, based on whether the OIG identified a topic as an enforcement priority in the 2011 Work Plan.