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 cou...

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...

Of all the penalties issued this year by the OIG in response to healthcare organizations that employed excluded individuals, all but three were the result of self-disclosures. Which kind of makes you wonder: Why?  Why ...

  An attorney with HHS’ Office of Inspector General said Thursday that the OIG is hiring additional lawyers to look into taking more administrative actions against doctors. They're looking for the types of questionab...

Is the Texas OIG more aggressive than other states?  More efficient?  More serious? Maybe all of the above. Although all state OIGs have an equal mandate to discover and prosecute medical facilities who have employed o...

At the end of last month, the Office of the Inspector General of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, issued an advisory opinion for all healthcare compliance officers -- but really, anyone involved...

Anyone working in the field of healthcare human resources should understand the role of the Office of the Inspector General in both investigating fraud related to federal health care programs and penalizing health organi...

It's generally a fairly simple concept that an entity that hires or contracts an excluded individuals is subject to monetary penalties. But what happens when those lines get a little fuzzier? A bulletin released by the...

Due to demographic evolution of the U.S. population, and the increasing age of the baby boomers, it is very likely that healthcare will be the fastest growing segment of the economy in the near future. That being the ca...