Home Health & Hospice Week

Watchdog agency's semiannual report to Congress highlights target areas. Wondering whether the OIG collects on its audits and investigations? A new report answers that question, to the tune of tens of billions of dollars. In its latest Semiannual Report to Congress, which covers HHS Office of Inspector General activity for fiscal year 2010, the OIG recovered $25.9 billion, which included $1.1 billion in audit receivables. "Along with our significant work related to a variety of HHS agency programs during this reporting period, we are particularly encouraged by the success of our partnerships with HHS and the Department of Justice through the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT)," Inspector General Daniel R. Levinson says in a release. "For example, our HEAT Strike Force teams yielded 89 convictions and $71.3 million in investigative receivables in the second half of FY 2010 alone." The OIG highlighted these home care areas [...]