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What You Need to Know About the DOJ OIG Annual Report

On April 6, 2018, the OIG and DOJ posted the annual report for fiscal year 2017 for the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program.

If you were looking for a sound financial investment, what kind of return on your money would you consider good? 8%, 10%, 20%? How about 652%!! If you could find such an ROI, wouldn’t it be amazing?

Are you ready for the HCCA's Compliance Institute? This year it’s April 15-18 in Las Vegas and I could not be more excited. I mean, I could, but I don’t think Nevada is ready for that level of enthusiasm.

If your organization provides outpatient physical therapy services, it’s probably a good idea to become familiar with the OIG’s latest work in this area.

The OIG has added seven new items to their work plan in March 2018. Let’s look at a few of them a little more closely.

Rebecca Latchis landed in healthcare compliance after a HIPAA project in law school guided her to a new path.

It’s not uncommon for organizations to create a compliance program, brush the dust off of their hands and go, “There! Finished!” and leave things that way for eternity.

What do you do when you’re running an exclusion check on an employee or vendor and you receive a positive match? Does a positive match automatically mean that person can’t work for you?