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The Office of Inspector General (OIG) continues to shine a spotlight on healthcare compliance risks—and their audit reports offer more than just findings. They offer a roadmap.

As a compliance officer, do you ever feel like you are making a list, checking it twice, tryin’ to find who’s naughty or nice?

So many compliance activities require checking, double-checking and sometimes triple-checking.  At this festive time of year, let’s reflect on the naughty and nice lists.

The U.S. Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently issued a report concluding that Medicare and patients combined overpaid more than a million dollars for the same professional services provided at critical access hospitals (CAH).

Who Bills for Professional Services?

For many years, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG)

The OIG has added more items to their Work Plan during May 2022. Let’s take a closer look at the new items.

April 2022 has brought more items to the OIG Work Plan. Let’s take a closer look at them.

The OIG continues to perform focused audits on hospital claims using billing data from thousands of hospitals

In many ways, compliance officers are the eyes in the sky of healthcare organizations.