Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Notes:
Head Off Steep Settlements With Smart Onboarding Checks
Published on Fri Sep 29, 2023
If you don’t have a spare $150K lying around, then be sure to check your employees against the HHS Office of Inspector General’s exclusions database. That’s the amount Bridges MN in St. Paul, Minn., agreed to pay to resolve allegations that it employed an individual who was excluded from participating in any federal health care program. “OIG’s investigation revealed that the excluded individual, a direct support professional, provided items or services that were billed to Federal health care programs,” the agency says on its Civil Money Penalties and Affirmative Exclusions webpage.
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