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Top Compliance Risks 2021
Compliance: HIPAA in 2017
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) Work Plan for fiscal year (FY) 2017 summarizes new and ongoing reviews and activities that OIG plans to pursue with respect to HHS programs and operations during the current fiscal year and beyond. Work planning is an ongoing and evolving process, […]
Measuring Compliance Program Effectiveness On January 17, 2017, a group of compliance professionals and staff from the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG) met to discuss ways to measure the effectiveness of compliance programs. The intent of this exercise was to provide a large number of ideas for measuring the […]
Compliance: Basics of Compliance Plans
The Work Plan describes the primary objectives and provides for each review its internal identification code and the year in which OIG expects one or more reports to be issued as a result of the review. Get the PDF (80 pages)
The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) Work Plan for Fiscal Year 2015 summarizes new and ongoing reviews and activities that OIG plans to pursue with respect to HHS programs and operations during the current fiscal year and beyond. The Work Plan describes the primary objectives and provides for each review its internal identification code […]
The Office of the Inspector General has released a Special Fraud Alert related to physician owned entities that manufacture and/or distribute implantable medical devices. The OIG believes these to involve a high risk of fraudulent activity. Read the report here. Other special fraud alerts have been issued involving DME Suppliers and Hospice with Nursing Homes. […]