In November 2022, the U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a report titled, “Long-Term Trends of Psychotropic Drug Use in Nursing Homes.”1 This report highlights areas of weakness related to nursing home patients who may be inappropriately given psychotropic...
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An Overview of Recent Enforcement Actions Against Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants
Advanced practice practitioners (APPs), such as physician assistants and nurse practitioners, are not exempt from the different types of compliance enforcement actions we have seen for many years taken against physicians. It does not appear such enforcement will slow down any time soon – let’s look...
New Auditing Training Courses and Resources for Your Team
Are you in need of a comprehensive training library with easy employee assignments and tracking? We thought you might be, which is why we expanded our Audit Manager training library!
A Behind-The-Scenes Look at Healthicity’s Annual Survey for Compliance and Auditing Professionals
If you’ve been in the Healthicity community for a while, you might know that we conduct annual surveys every year for compliance and auditing professionals.
5 New OIG Work Plan Items Added in July 2023
Ada’s Laundry Day Goes Down the Drain
We’ve all been there – watching our laundry pile grow and grow until it engulfs an entire chair (or corner of the room). Ada finds herself in that very predicament, ignoring the boring task of laundry when there’s so much fun to be had in the summer sun.