The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) Work Plan for Fiscal Year 2013 provides brief descriptions of activities that OIG plans to initiate or continue with respect to HHS programs and operations in fiscal year 2013. The Work Plan describes the primary objectives and provides for each review its internal identification code, the year in […]
Global health care giant GlaxoSmithKline LLC (GSK) agreed to plead guilty and to pay $3 billion to resolve its criminal and civil liability arising from the company’s unlawful promotion of certain prescription drugs, its failure to report certain safety data, and its civil liability for alleged false price reporting practices, the Justice Department announced today. The […]
This notice sets forth OIG guidance regarding standards OIG will apply in assessing the performance of State Medicaid Fraud Control Units (MFCU or Unit). These standards replace and supersede standards published on September 26, 1994 (59 FR 49080). OIG will apply these standards in certifying and recertifying each Unit and to determine if a Unit […]
From the OIG News Release: The newest step in OIG’s Provider Compliance Training initiative is free videos and audio podcasts – averaging about four minutes each – which cover major health care fraud and abuse laws, the basics of health care compliance programs, and what to do when a compliance issue arises. The first […]