Fraud Spotlight: Kickbacks

Retired OIG Special Agent and Advize’s Director of Litigation & FWA Support will be stepping in each week to examine current fraud trends from the lens of an investigator. Stay tuned for weekly insights, updates, and information on healthcare’s most...

Fraud Spotlight: Genetic Testing

Retired OIG Special Agent and Advize’s Director of Litigation & FWA Support will be stepping in each week to examine current fraud trends from the lens of an investigator. Stay tuned for weekly insights, updates, and information on healthcare’s most...

The Road to Compliance

The road to compliance is long and bumpy, but a trip we must all take in 2018. In January 2017, compliance professionals from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Inspector General (OIG) held an assembly in which they discussed how to measure...

Don’t Get Ghosted by Your DME Supplier

Medicare fraud maintains its position among the fastest growing crimes in the United States. The government loses nearly $75 billion a year to Medicare fraud; which has led to the conception of several anti-fraud initiatives, including the OIG’s Operation Whack-A-Mole...

2016 Update: OIG/OCR Audit Process

OCR’s Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Audit Program: Although the ever-expanding use of health information technology in health care provides many benefits, in turn it poses new risks to consumer privacy. To ensure HIPAA compliance, HITECH requires HHS to...