Category: OIG Check

Compliance in the healthcare industry calls for absolute attention to detail. Making an OIG check one of the most crucial steps towards ensuring and establishing trust and compliance in a system. Health organizations should guarantee that their staff and associates are not restricted from engaging in federally funded programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. In […]

The healthcare organization deals with complex matters on a daily basis, and compliance checks are among them. Just to be safe, secure, and protected, the healthcare premises need to consistently and critically maintain OIG exclusion as a priority. Although the providers diligently work to adhere to regulations from HIPAA to the Stark Law. Still, the […]

Most healthcare facilities have perfected the process of compliance checks for their own employees by automating the check form exclusions list OIG. Some have even looked at and corrected the loophole involving external vendors, including third parties, and further. However, there is still one external risk that has been hidden or is going unidentified for […]

A major hospital system with extensive market presence and lifelong expertise in its field passed every audit. However, the lack of an OIG check on subcontractors led to a $2.3 million fine. The subcontractor has an excluded employee, whom the hospital had never heard of before. Yet somehow the liability falls on the hospital, resulting […]