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Screen Early, Screen Often: OIG Updates its Advice on How to Avoid Liability for Employing or Contracting with Individuals Excluded from Participation in Federal Health Care Programs

Posted by Health Law Informer Author on June 03, 2013
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On May 8, 2013, the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) of the Department of Health & Human Services issued an updated Special Advisory Bulletin (the “Updated Bulletin”)[1]  on the effect of exclusion from participation in Medicare, Medicaid and other Federal health care programs (collectively “FHPs).  The Updated Bulletin, which replaces and supersedes guidance originally provided by OIG in a 1999 Special Advisory Bulletin (the “1999 Bulletin”), details OIG’s broad interpretation of the scope and effect of its exclusion authority under the Civil Monetary Penalties Law (“CMPL”).[2]  The Updated Bulletin addresses many of the questions OIG has received about exclusions and purports to convey insight gained from resolving self-disclosure cases since publishing the 1999 Bulletin. Continue reading…

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