Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Notes:
Beware Excluded Employees Or Pay The Price
Published on Fri Apr 22, 2022
Some recent Civil Money Penalty cases underscore why it’s important to check employees against the excluded individuals list. After it self-disclosed conduct to the HHS Office of Inspector General, the Harney County Health District in Oregon agreed to pay $10,000 for employing an individual that it knew or should have known was excluded from participation in Federal health care programs, the OIG says. Heritage Health of Danville, Illinois agreed to pay $10,750.45 and River Hospital Inc. in New York agreed to pay $20,000 for the same violation after self-disclosure, the OIG says on its CMPs webpage.
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