National Health IT Week wrapped up on Friday. This may have been the most eventful week in the ten year history of the event, which is organized by the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS). Below are a few of the highlights (each of which could likely carry its own blog post): Stage 3 …
OIG Approves Lease of Employees to Psych Hospital
July 29, 2015 Leave a Comment
On July 28 the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of Health & Human Services gave its blessing to a health system’s lease of employees to a related psychiatric system. Under the arrangement the system would also provide management services. In return, the hospital would pay the system its “fully …
Out of the Mouths of Babes: Millions of Medicaid Dollars
May 19, 2015 Leave a Comment
Last Monday the Office of Inspector General of Health & Human Services posted a hair-raising report. “Questionable Billing for Medicaid Pediatric Services in California” raises alarming questions about the billing practices and service quality of some of that state’s dentists—especially those working …
OIG Speaks to HCCA Compliance Institute
April 20, 2015 Leave a Comment
Daniel Levinson, the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, kicked off the annual Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) Compliance Institute in Orlando Florida this morning. Nearly all of the 3,000 conference attendees, a new record for the compliance institute, were in …
OIG Advises that Exclusive Lab Referral Arrangement May be a Kickback
March 25, 2015 Leave a Comment
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) released an advisory opinion (No. 15-04) today that states a proposed arrangement to provide free laboratory tests for certain patients of associated physician practices could implicate the federal anti-kickback law. An unnamed …
DOJ/OIG Issue FY2014 Report: Health Fraud Recoveries and Case Filings Decline
March 19, 2015 Leave a Comment
In an annual report required by Congress and issued today, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS-OIG) and Department of Justice (DOJ) detailed their FY 2014 results under their coordinated Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program (HCFAC Program). In FY 2014, approximately $3.3 billion was …