Category Archives: Fraud and Abuse

Skilled Nursing Facility Compliance Work Plan

Skilled Nursing Facility and Nursing Home Annual Work Plan The OIG’s 2017 Annual Work Plan identified a few new areas of focus relating to nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities. Nursing home compliance officers should consider these newly identified issues … Continue reading →

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False Claims Act – Lincolns Law and the Health Care Compliance Industry

Federal False Claims Act – Lincoln’s Law Applied to Health Care When Congress originally passed the False Claims Act (31 USC §§ 3729-3733), no one had the health care system in mind.  The False Claims Act was also commonly referred … Continue reading →

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Identifying Practice Outliers Using Data Mining

Data Mining Used to Identify Practice Outliers A Note From the OIG Presentation at the HCCA Compliance Institute The federal government is actively using data to identify providers who perform outlier billing.  If your billing patterns reflect a pattern that … Continue reading →

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