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Medicare Exclusion Screening is Essential to Compliance – Failure to Properly Screen Can be Costly

(January 14, 2013): In recent years, we have represented physicians and a range of other health care providers in administrative litigation over “exclusion” related enforcement actions. One of the most severe sanctions available under the Social Security Act stems from the authority to exclude individuals and entities from participation in federal health care programs. Medicare […]

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Provider Exclusion Screening / OIG Screening Practices are a Significant Risk

(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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