As part of the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team’s success, the Medicare Fraud Strike Force teams will continue to report potential fraud to the OIG. Payment suspensions…
What Is the OIG List Of Excluded Individuals and Entities (LEIE)?
According to the OIG’s “Roadmap for New Physicians: Avoiding Medicare and Medicaid Fraud and Abuse”, the OIG is legally required to exclude individuals and entities from all Federal healthcare programs…
OIG’s Updated Self-Disclosure Protocol
OIG’s Updated Self-Disclosure Protocol Reinforces the Need for Compliance Programs in Physician Practices On April 17, 2013, the OIG published the Updated Provider Self – Disclosure Protocol. This update emphasizes…
Top 10 Reasons to Have a Compliance Program
10 I want to know about a violation of law in my practice before the government and the world know about it. In a world with information readily available at…
Billing for “Incident-to” Services: Preparing for OIG Review
First Healthcare Compliance’s Janice Jones discusses Billing for Incident-to Services: Preparing for OIG Review as part of the preparation Affordable Care Act. Watch a video of the webinar.
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Incident-to and the OIG Work Plan for 2013
The OIG Work Plan for 2013 includes a review which will attempt to determine whether payments for “Incident-to” services had a higher error rate than non-incident to services. Physicians who…