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Compliance:

Check Your Employees Carefully Against Exclusions List

Published on Thu Aug 30, 2012

Two home care providers face big repayments due to excluded employees.You could have to cough up upwards of $100K if you fail to take the time to cross-check your staff against the HHS Office of Inspector General's exclusion list.Paying the government tens of thousands of dollars is the hard penalty two home care providers had to face this summer, according to information newly posted to the OIG's website. Cooperative Home Care in Missouri agreed to pay $121,010 for employing an individual that it knew or should have known was excluded from participation in Federal health care programs, the OIG says. And after it self-disclosed conduct to the OIG, Seasons Hospice and Palliative Care of Southern Florida Inc. in Florida, agreed to pay $73,428 for the same violation."Anyone who hires an individual or entity on the LEIE may be subject to civil monetary penalties," the OIG warns on its website.Checking the [...]
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