All you need to know about Arkansas Medicaid Exclusions The Arkansas Medicaid Inspector General (OMIG) was established on April 23, 2013, in pursuant to the Arkansas Act 1499, whose purpose include:   ...

  Positive Numbers: Highlights of the 2016 Spring Report from the HHS OIG One thing evident in the recently released Spring Report for 2016 from The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector G...

Florida Healthcare Exclusion Under the State of Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) is the Office of the Inspector General, spearheaded by Chief Kelly Bennett. As an integral part of the AHCA, the O...

Nurse Fraud Nurses have become heavily involved in a spate of health-care related fraud news in recent years. One of the most controversial reports of fraud from the Department of Justice was in 2011, which involved ei...

Just a few months into 2016, and already, a mother-daughter tandem is causing ripples in the health care pond by pleading guilty to second-degree Medicaid fraud in Hawaii last March 9.   The “mother” in this c...

The Differences between Compliance Officers and the HR Department   The HR department of any organization has a crucial role to play in ensuring compliance, and company compliance officers have the important res...

Texas OIG and Medicaid Exclusions Under the guidance of Inspector General Stuart W. Bowen, Jr., Texas OIG functions within a singular mission: " To detect, prevent, and deter fraud, waste, and abuse through the audit, in...

Is Exclusion Screening even possible? The U.S. Government Accountability Office has recently released the results of a study conducted in order to gauge the reliability, uniformity, and exhaustibility of exclusion databa...

The Parthenon of Healthcare Compliance   https://youtu.be/5TQg1A3ovRA   At the 2016 HCCA Compliance Institute, an annual conference for compliance stakeholders, Inspector General of the U.S. Department of H...