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Provider Exclusion Screening / OIG Screening Practices are a Significant Risk

Medicare, Medicaid & Private Payor Updates /

(December 11, 2010): Has your practice conducted exclusion screening / OIG screening on all of you employees?Earlier this week, HHS-OIG announced that it had assessed significant civil monetary penalties against a health care provider that employed seven individuals who the provider “knew or should have known” had been excluded from participation in Federal health care […]

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Medicare Fraud Strike Force Operation Leads to Charges against 94 Defendants, including 4 in South Texas

HEAT Strike Force, Medicare, Medicaid & Private Payor Updates /

(July 17, 2010): Yesterday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced charges against 94 physicians, medical assistants, and health care company owners and executives in connection with alleged false Medicare claims amounting to more than $251 million. 24 defendants from Miami account for approximately $103 million of that amount. Four defendants were charged in Houston for

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