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Beware of Individual Liability: Yates Memo

On September 9, 2015, the Department of Justice (DOJ) Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates released a policy memorandum, titled “Individual Accountability for Corporate Wrongdoing,” also known as the “Yates Memo.”…
Catherine Short
1st Healthcare Compliance, Abuse, Anti-Kickback Statute, Audit Zone, Blog, Corporate Integrity Agreement, DOJ, Fraud, Individual Accountability, OIG, Overutilizaton, physician self-referral law, Quarterly Zone, Uncategorized, Waste, Whistleblower, Wrongdoing, Yates Memo
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OIG WORKPLAN 2016

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is responsible for protecting the integrity of the programs in Health and Human Services against fraud, waste and abuse as well as recommending…
First Healthcare Compliance Staff
1st Healthcare Compliance, Abuse, ACA, Affordable Care Act, Anti-Kickback Statute, Audit Zone, Blog, Breach, Business Associate, CMS, compliance program, Corporate Integrity Agreement, Covered Entity, false claims act, Fraud, HHS, HIPAA, HIPAA Zone, HITECH, ICD-10, Imaging, Medicare, Medicare Rules, OCR, OIG, OIG Work Plan, Overutilizaton, PHI, physician self-referral law, Quarterly Zone, self-disclosure, Stark Law, Waste, Whistleblower
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Overview of a Corporate Integrity Agreement (CIA)

Health care fraud recoveries for fiscal years 2009- 2014 exceeded previous records with five straight years of more than $2 billion in annual recovery from cases involving fraud and false…
Catherine Short
1st Healthcare Compliance, Abuse, ACA, Affordable Care Act, Anti-Kickback Statute, Audit Zone, Blog, Breach, Business Associate, CIA, CMS, compliance program, Corporate Integrity Agreement, Covered Entity, Dashboard Zone, false claims act, FCA, Fraud, HHS, LEIE, Medicare Rules, OCR, Offshore contractors, OIG, OIG Work Plan, Overutilizaton, PHI, physician self-referral law, Quarterly Zone, security breach, Stark Law, Uncategorized, Vendor Zone, Waste, Whistleblower
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Avoiding Overutilization vs. Patient Satisfaction: What’s a provider to do?

An increasingly important issue for many providers is the dilemma of providing care that is satisfactory to the patient while avoiding overutilization and its effect on reimbursement.   Unfortunately, the patient’s…
First Healthcare Compliance Staff
Audit Zone, Blog, Fraud, Healthcare, Imaging, Overutilizaton, Patient Satisfaction, Physician-patient Relationship, Quarterly Zone, Uncategorized, Waste
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