With recent events in Afghanistan, the role of the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in controlling the release of funds held in US financial institutions by foreign countries or terrorist o...

Background The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) was signed into law by President Nixon in 1970 and took effect April 25, 1971. The original purpose of the FCRA was to give consumers certain rights and protections rela...

As the keynote speaker at the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) Compliance Institute on April 21, 2021 the HHS OIG Deputy Inspector Christi Grimm reviewed the OIG’s top 10 compliance priorities for 2021 and bey...

The regular screening of federal lists for individuals who are ineligible to participate in federal contracts is required of all federal healthcare contractors. The OIG and SAM lists, as they are commonly called, are the...

Federal exclusion requirements have been in place for years. However, in the last decade there have been significant legislative efforts to strengthen and extend Medicaid program integrity controls to protect beneficiari...

Background The function of Medicaid Fraud Control Units (MFCUs/Units) is to investigate and prosecute Medicaid provider fraud and patient abuse/neglect. The Social Security Act requires each state to operate a MFCU. M...

Without question, the COVID-19 pandemic profoundly affected the health care industry. In some cases, the effects were fleeting, such as hospital over-crowding and supply chain challenges related to masks, oxygen and vent...

The COVID-19 pandemic drove significant changes and expansion in care delivery practices. The federal government and the State of Texas implemented policy and treatment flexibility to ensure continued access to care and ...

When a health care entity is faced with permissive exclusion from participation in federal health care programs, the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) has the discretion to offer a Corporate Int...