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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?

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.

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?

Last month the OCR announced a $3.5 million settlement with Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA).

The Vermont hospital, Brattleboro Memorial, recently paid $1.6 million to the U.S. and State of Vermont to resolve allegations of false claims.

A few weeks ago, we presented a webinar on the impact of the 60-day overpayment rule since its release two years ago. We had so many questions at the end of the webinar, we couldn’t get to all of them.