By Eugene Ngai
The Office of Inspector General has published its Work Plan for the 2013 Fiscal Year. This provides health care industry players with an insight into the activities that OIG plans to initiate or continue with respect to federal health care programs and operations in the upcoming fiscal year. Some new areas that OIG plans on investigating include:
Continue Reading...By Karie Rego
The Office of the Inspector General ("OIG") recently published several reports finding that prestigious east coast hospitals incorrectly billed the Medicare program for replacement medical devices. These are not new problems. In fact, it has been reported that providers often bill the Medicare program for replacement devices without accounting for the related credit which is refunded by the manufacturer to the provider.
By Ken Yood and Lynsey Mitchel
The mission of the Office of the Inspector General ("OIG") is to protect the integrity of the programs and operations of the Department of Health & Human Services, for example Medicare, by detecting and preventing waste, fraud and abuse, and identifying opportunities to improve program economy, efficiency and effectiveness. The Work Plan describes both the ongoing and new audits and evaluations that the OIG plans to address in fiscal year 2011.
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