In This Issue: - Exclusion from Federal Health Care Programs - The New Advisory Bulletin - What Providers Should Know - For More Information - Excerpt from Exclusion from Federal Health Care...more
On Wednesday, May 8, 2013, the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a Special Advisory Bulletin on the Effect of Exclusion from Participation in Federal Health Care Programs (FHCPs). This...more
On May 8, 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General ("OIG") released an Updated Special Advisory Bulletin on the Effect of Exclusion from the Participation in Federal Health Care...more
On May 8, 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued an updated Special Advisory Bulletin on the Effect of Exclusion from Participation in Federal Health Care Programs...more
On May 8, 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued an updated Special Advisory Bulletin on the effect of exclusion from participating in federal health care programs....more
On May 8, 2013, the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services (“OIG”) released an Updated Special Advisory Bulletin on the Effect of Exclusion from Participation in Federal Health Care...more
On May 8, 2013, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued an updated Special Advisory Bulletin on the effect of exclusion from federal health care programs. A federal health care program (e.g., Medicare and Medicaid) is...more
OIG continues its aggressive interpretation of scope and effect of exclusion from participation in Federal health care programs and clarifies several open questions....more
In 1998, the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General ("OIG") published the Self-Disclosure Protocol ("SDP"), which provides a mechanism through which health care providers may voluntarily report...more
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) has published an updated Provider Self-Disclosure Protocol (the “Updated SDP”) that offers health care providers guidance on how to disclose...more
On December 31, 2012 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General ("OIG") issued a favorable Advisory Opinion No.12-22 for a hospital cardiology group compensation arrangement that includes a...more
On March 15, 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) released the Updated OIG Guidelines for Evaluating State False Claims Acts (“2013 Guidelines”), which replaces the...more
In a recent favorable advisory opinion, the OIG reviewed a Federally qualified health center’s (FQHC) proposal to offer $20 grocery store gift cards to certain patients in capitated managed care plans as an incentive for such...more
Hospitals across the country have been actively seeking to align physician interests with the interests of the hospital, in order to provide high quality patient care in a more coordinated and efficient manner. Many hospitals...more
On January 7, 2013, the HHS OIG released Advisory Opinion 12-22 concerning a rural hospital's (Hospital) proposal to pay a cardiology group (Group) a performance bonus for achieving certain patient service, quality and cost...more
On January 7, 2013, HHS OIG published a favorable advisory opinion on a management arrangement between a hospital and a cardiology group related to the provision of certain cardiac catheterization services at the hospital. ...more
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