Introduction For most health care organizations, their primary purpose is to provide high quality patient care to support the best outcomes possible.  The qualifications and expertise of an organization’s medic...

AN OVERVIEW of THE OIG’S LIST OF EXCLUDED INDIVIDUALS AND ENTITIES Since 1977, the federal government has maintained a list of individuals and entities that are excluded from participation in any federal health care...

What Is A Sanction Check Sanctions against medical personnel can create significant risk to a healthcare organization from financial, compliance and patient safety perspectives. Therefore, it is critical that organi...

Last month, the OIG released  audit report findings regarding whether Medicare Part C health plans (also known as Medicare Advantage Organizations or MAOs) are fully utilizing National Provider Identifier numbers (N...

Along with significant scientific and medical challenges, COVID-19 has also revealed significant fraud-related challenges. Some are novel and some are variations on age old schemes. This article addresses Coronavirus fra...

What is OFAC? The U.S. Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) is the department of the U.S. Treasury that is responsible for facilitating compliance with the U.S. foreign policy and national security agendas. OFAC&nbs...

Streamline Verify is proud to have had the privilege of working with the Journal of Regulatory Compliance at Loyola University Chicago School of Law to help galvanize research and resources for the publication of their u...

It goes without saying that nursing licensure verification is a benefit to all stakeholders in our healthcare ecosystem.  Our licensing system allows patients to be satisfied that nursing professionals have the skil...

In March 2020, the World Health Organization classified COVID-19 as a pandemic. The federal government declared a Public Health Emergency shortly thereafter. For the first time in a century, our country was in the grip o...