The HSS OIG compliance news and advice section of The HIPAA Journal provides updates on new guidelines from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, as well as information on enforcement actions and OIG compliance advice. The section of HIPAA Journal is provides more advanced healthcare compliance information and is particularly useful for compliance officers and legal professionals.
The HHS Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) has issued a warning to the public about a fraud scheme that targets...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Administration for Children and Families (ACF) has put the sensitive data of...
The role of compliance officers in HHS OIG regulations is to ensure policies and procedures are in place to mitigate...
Audits conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) of states that claim Medicaid...
An HHS OIG compliance program consists of best practices that should be included in an integrated healthcare compliance program to...
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) has agreed to a settlement with UNC Health...
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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an alert following the publication of a proof of concept (PoC)…
President Biden’s Cybersecurity Executive Order requires all federal agencies to reevaluate their approach to cybersecurity, develop new methods of evaluating…
The HHS OIG fraud, waste, and abuse guidelines are intended to support healthcare organizations in their efforts to self-monitor compliance...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) makes monthly payments to organizations under the Medicare Advantage (MA) program according...
The HHS OIG background check requirements are that healthcare providers should check the HHS OIG Exclusions List before engaging a...
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General has published its third and final report on the...
If an individual or organization is on the HHS OIG Exclusion List, it means they been excluded from participating in...
The best way to write an HHS OIG complaint to increase the chances of the complaint being investigated is to...
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The HHS OIG Safe Harbor Regulations define the circumstances in which the offer, solicitation, payment, or receipt of remuneration in...
The HHS OIG anti-kickback regulations prohibit the remuneration of individuals or organizations in Federal healthcare programs when the purpose of...
The owner of the companies Expansion Media and Hybrid Management Group has agreed to plead guilty to one count of...
The former Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of the New Castle, DE-based pharmacy BioTek reMEDys Inc. (BioTek) has been added to the...
Sentynl Therapeutics Inc., a Solana Beach, CA-based specialty pharmaceutical company, has agreed to pay a financial penalty of $750,000 to...
A former Maryland dentist has been sentenced for practicing dentistry without a license and fraudulently billing Medicaid for $8.5 million....
An HHS OIG investigation is a criminal, civil, or administrative investigation into fraud or misconduct in a program run by...
Penn State Health has agreed to pay $11,712,336 to resolve allegations of civil liability for submitting claims to Medicare for...
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) has published a Roadmap for New Physicians...
An Illinois physician is facing decades in jail for defrauding the state out of $1.2 million in Medicaid funds. Dr....
An OIG Corporate Integrity Agreement in healthcare is a contract between the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office...
The initials HHS OIG stand for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG)...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) has added the founder and CEO of...
The OIG Stark Law is the section of the Social Security Act that prohibits physicians from referring Medicare and Medicaid...
OIG in healthcare stands for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) – the...
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The HHS OIG Exclusions List is a database of individuals and organizations that are prohibited from participating in federal health...
The seven elements of a compliance program are integrated processes organizations can adopt to help develop a culture of compliance...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) has published new “General Compliance Program Guidance.”...
The civil monetary penalties for health IT companies that are found to be engaging in information blocking have been finalized....
The Texas OIG exclusions database is a list of excluded individuals and entities similar to the federal HHS OIG exclusion...
HHS OIG federal exclusions are sanctions on individuals and organizations that have violated a clause in §1128 of the Social...
The HHS’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) has called for the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to improve oversight...
Since 1991, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) at the Department of Health and Human Services has promulgated more...
The HHS’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) has conducted a review to determine the extent to which the Centers for...
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General has published the findings of its annual evaluation of...
Two members of the Department of Veteran Affairs’ (VA) information technology staff are alleged to have made false representations about...
The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) has conducted a review of VA facilities and community...
The HHS’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) has published a strategic plan for oversight of the COVID-19 response and recovery...
An audit conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) has revealed many pharmacies...
Two government watchdog agencies have recently published reports of reviews of privacy and security safeguards at the U.S. Department of...
Internal Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) communications, disability claims, and the health information of thousands of veterans have been exposed...
A recent inspection of a California VA medical center by the Department of Veteran Affairs Office of Inspector General (VA...
The U.S Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) has released a report of its annual...
Audits conducted by the HHS’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) have uncovered multiple security vulnerabilities at HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs)....
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) has issued a report on the findings of...
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) has published its annual report on the top...
The HHS’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) has published the findings of an audit of the FDA’s policies and procedures...
A new report released by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) has revealed the...
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (HHS OIG) has recently created a new web page detailing some...
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General has published the findings of its 2017 fiscal review...
The VA Office of Inspector General has discovered a Wi-Fi network was set up at a Florida VA medical center...
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) has published the findings of an audit of...
The HHS’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) has conducted a review of Alabama’s Medicaid data and information systems to ascertain...
This year has seen numerous email scams conducted to gain access to the tax information of employees; however, recently, criminals...
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General has published the results of an audit of the...
An annual review of Medicare administrative contractors’ (MACs) information security programs has shown them to be ‘adequate in scope and...
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) has announced that it will be continuing to assess the information security controls of...
An investigation of Colorado’s Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office...
The Department of Veteran Affairs’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) has published a report on the investigation of a VA...
A review of Washington State’s health insurance exchange conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector...
In April last year, the Office of Inspector General received an anonymous tip-off alleging the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) had...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General has published a report of an investigation into...
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General has published the findings of a security audit of...
The Department of Health & Human Services Office of Inspector General has recently published the results of information system reviews...
Over the course of the next year, OIG is expecting to increase oversight of the Department of Health and Human...
Take a look at the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights website and you will discover...
A “critical” HealthCare.gov security vulnerability has been discovered which could potentially be exploited by hackers looking to gain access to...
The VA Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has recently published the findings of its administrative investigation into improper web-based...
The Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services has recently issued a report stating...
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