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Here's Another Reminder To Check The OIG Exclusion List

Published on Thu Oct 18, 2012

Kansas provider pays up for employing excluded individual.You should have lots of good reasons for taking the time to check your staff against the OIG's exclusion list -- maybe more than 80,000 of them.After it self-disclosed conduct to the HHS Office of Inspector General, Home Healthcare Connection Inc. in Wichita, Kan., agreed to pay $81,102 for allegedly violating the Civil Monetary Penalties Law, the OIG says in a new post to its website. The OIG alleges that HHCI employed an individual that it knew or should have known was excluded from participation in Federal health care programs.The OIG doesn't disclose whether the excluded employee was involved in direct patient care.HHCI is likely far from alone. In a new study, the OIG randomly chose 500 home health agencies, hospitals, nursing facilities, and pharmacies from the population of providers enrolled in the 12 managed care entities contracted with state Medicaid programs. "Most providers [...]
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