Podcast: What Is the Future of the Acute Care Hospital Industry? - Diagnosing Health Care
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently posted Advisory Opinion 22-20, approving an acute care hospital’s arrangement under which its employed nurse practitioners...more
Report on Medicare Compliance 31, no. 35 (September 26, 2022) - The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) on Sept. 23 unveiled a new template for requesting advisory opinions. - In a new report, OIG said CMS edits...more
Compliance Today (March 2021) - The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has provided the following compliance notice: “In a recent report, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) determined that Medicare made...more
Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 7 (February 24, 2020) - Guardian Elder Care Holdings Inc., which operates more than 50 skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, and its related...more
2019 has seen a major focus by federal departments on effective compliance programs at hospitals, clinics, and home health/hospice care. Get the OIG and other government updates you need as a compliance professional or...more
Acute care hospitals that provide Medicare outpatient services to inpatients of other hospitals should be billing and collecting payment from the other inpatient hospitals and not from Medicare....more
The HHS Office of Inspector General has targeted hospitals for fraud enforcement. It is one of the OIG’s most important initiatives because of the impact it could have on reducing health care costs....more