Medicaid Exclusion for NJ New Jersey Medicaid Fraud Division On June 29, 2010, the duties and functions of the Office of the Medical Inspector General were transferred to the Office of the State Comptroller through the ...

OIG Background Check Basics: Not every medical practice is large enough to employ a full-time compliance officer, but every medical facility is large enough to get slammed by the OIG for messing up on some part of the sc...

Ohio Medicaid Provider Exclusion and Suspension List The Ohio Department of Medicaid (ODM) was founded in July 2013. It is the premier Executive-level Medicaid agency of the state of Ohio. Led by Director John B. McCart...

  Exclusion Screening 101 Exclusion screening occurs at both the federal and state levels. The federal government maintains two principal exclusion databases, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG)’s LEIE database ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services established The Office of Inspector General (OIG) to carry out these basic functions: The identification and elimination of fraud, waste, and abuse of the programs initia...

Medicaid and Medicare frauds run to the tune of billions of dollars each year. Running a check on OIG exclusions is one way to catch this fraud, and also protect one’s healthcare system from doing business with blackl...

  The National Healthcare Anti-Fraud Association approximates 3 to 10 percent of annual healthcare expenditures account to fraudulent claims. This means that in the $600 billion spent for Medicare back in 2012, $60...

The exhilaration of tonight’s $1.5 billion Powerball drawing is attracting even people who don’t typically play the lottery. And, in many organizations, employees are pooling their resources with the promise of split...

How did healthcare compliance fare in 2015? Overall, it was quite a busy year for the OIG and various organizations, with noteworthy settlements and enforcement activities beginning as early as January. The OIG excluded ...