OIG’s Monthly Enforcement Actions Against Organizations That Hire Excluded Individuals
In October, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) reported on three cases where healthcare…
OIG Upgrades Online Searching Of The List Of Excluded Entities Database
On May 8, 2013, the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued the “Special Advisory Bulletin on the Effect of…
Office of Inspector General’s Sanctions And Exclusions of Healthcare Parties
During my term as Inspector General at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), I instituted what is now…
What Nursing Facilities Can Do to Implement a Compliance Program
Many nursing facilities have yet to develop and implement an effective compliance program, despite the fact that the Department of…
New Problems With GSA Debarment System
The General Services Administration (GSA) sanction screening database continues to have problems for users. The GSA debarment list, previously known…
Medicaid Sanction Screening
“To obtain/maintain active enrollment status, providers may not employ or contract with individuals/entities excluded from participation in any federal health…
A Dozen Reasons to Not Like the GSA Debarment List
I don’t like the General Services Administration (GSA) debarment list. It provides mostly useless information with very little return on…
The OIG on Screening Against the GSA EPLS
“To obtain/maintain active enrollment status, providers may not employ or contract with individuals/entities excluded from participation in any federal health…
Biggest Mistakes With Sanction Screening
With the Office of Inspector General (OIG), CMS, and State Medicaid Agencies all calling for increased and more frequent sanction screening,…
Tips to Mitigate the GSA Sanction Screening Burden
CMS is the only government agency really pushing screening against the Excluded Parties Lists System (EPLS) (now moved to the System…
GSA Sanction Screening Security Problems
The General Services Administration (GSA) maintains debarment data in the well known Excluded Parties List System (EPLS). They recently migrated this…
Outsourcing Sanction Screening
One of the most significant trends in business over the last decade has been the movement to outsourcing as many functions…