Screening employees and potential hires is an important step in maintaining quality service and protecting oneself against federal law infringement. One of the areas that hospitals, credentialing offices, and medical facilities often require is DEA screening. Below we will elaborate...
ALERT: All Providers Are Required To Redo Texas Employee Misconduct Registry (EMR) Searches
August 9, 2017
The Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services (DADS) has just notified providers via their website that there was a delay in uploading names to the Employee Misconduct Registry (EMR) during the period of June 9, 2017 through July 27,...
OIG Regulation Excludes Student Loan Defaulters from Federal Health Programs
August 2, 2017
Mini graduation cap on US money -- education costs in the design of information related to the cost of education Healthcare providers who did not fulfill their obligations under a student loan, scholarship or loan repayment program can be placed...
What to Do When You Find an Excluded Party in Your Employment
June 15, 2017
Discovering that you’re employing an excluded individual can happen even to the most meticulous in the healthcare industry. How you address this mistake is another thing altogether. Properly addressing the issue means understanding what Self-Disclosure entails. The Self-Disclosure Protocol (SDP)...
MFCU 2016 Annual Report: States Getting Better at Finding Medicaid Fraud and Abuse
June 5, 2017
State Medicaid Fraud Control Units are continuing a five-year trend of increasing convictions, civil settlements and exclusions for fraud and abuse. A report, released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General, shows that...
NHS Cyberattack Threatens Thousands in Healthcare Industry
May 24, 2017
The world is still shaking from the recent WannaCry ransomware attack. The largest cyberattack in England’s National Health Service (NHS) history, this virus may cost innocent people their lives as medical institutions scramble to regain sanity after being infected. Find...
Jimmy Kimmel Monologue Inspires National Nurses Week
May 9, 2017
Late night television host Jimmy Kimmel tearfully told the story of his newborn son’s recent birth and open-heart surgery due to a heart defect. In his monologue, Kimmel explained that it was an attentive nurse that first identified the heart...
Same Number, Different Fraud: Phishing Scam Spoofs the OIG Fraud Hotline
May 1, 2017
Scam on red dice  Thousands Hit by OIG Phone Scam All over the country, people have been getting calls from the U.S. Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG), but they’re actually scam calls that just...
New NTIS Guidelines Limit Access To the Death Master File
April 28, 2017
Symbol of internet security with binary character hand and padlock The Importance of the Death Master File Ghosting, or stealing the identity of a deceased individual is one of the oldest forms of identity theft. In the 1940s, Samuel Jones appropriated...
