5 compliance fundamentals that are guaranteed to grant you favor in the eyes of the OIG - and every other law enforcement agency. Essential before your next inspection. 1. Protocol Compliance officials expect you to have an efficient, comprehensive compliance...
The Great Exclusion Snowball
September 21, 2015
Global warming and the Artic freeze are not our forte, but we've granted ourselves the liberty of forecasting what our 'weathermen' see coming up on the horizon: The Great Exclusion Snowball. Over two months ago, we blogged about the the OIG alert targeting...
What happened to Small Smiles dentists?
September 17, 2015
The dentistry was rotten; the teeth were not. If there was ever a practice worthy of exclusion, Small Smiles Dentistry for Children was it. Â To quote just one of the many reports released about the now-infamous chain: Problems at Small...
Excluded Ambulance Drivers: Whose Responsibility?
September 7, 2015
Four Jacksonville, FL hospitals have agreed to pay a combined $7.5 million settlement for crimes that they did not commit. Jacksonville Business Journal reports that the four -- Baptist Health, which runs four hospitals; UF Health Jacksonville; Memorial Hospital, which...
Beware the Housekeeper
September 2, 2015
The OIG has been known to go after all types of healthcare professionals, but... the housekeeper? Yes, indeed. Itasca County, Minnesota, and its nursing home, the Itasca Nursing Home d/b/a Grand Village (Itasca), a county-owned nursing home in Grand Rapids,...
Confused about state exclusions? So is the OIG.
August 20, 2015
With state officials still in the dark over applications of the law, healthcare organizations grapple with the risks of single-state exclusion screening. "Yes, you do have to. No, you don’t. Well, you don’t, but we might do it for you. ...
Healthcare Fraud: Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid
August 17, 2015
 The healthcare industry needs a reliable compliance system more than ever. Healthcare Fraud is rearing its ugly head hundreds of times more than any other criminal conviction. In the 2014 OIG report on the...
Can OIG Exclusion Wreck My Career Forever?
August 3, 2015
We picked this one up from allnurses.com, an open forum for nurses and nursing students. HELP! I just learned that I've been on the OIG Exclusion list since Jan 2003 following my RN license surrender / revocation for narcotic diversion...
Employee Screening: Endless, thankless…hopeless?
July 27, 2015
Streamline Verify recently posted a guest blog on E-Visit on the topic of pre-screening employees, and we ran into a simple but major question while compiling the post. Which employee screenings SHOULD be on every facility’s list of essentials, and which can...
