Home Health & Hospice Week
HHA Learns Exclusion Lesson The Hard Way
If you’re not cross-checking your em-ployees against the OIG’s excluded providers list, here’s a reminder that you should be. Interim HealthCare of the Eastern Carolinas Inc. in North Carolina has agreed to pay nearly $80,000 for allegedly violating the Civil Monetary Penalties Law, the HHS Office of Inspector General says on its website. The OIG alleges that Interim HealthCare employed an individual that it knew or should have known was excluded from participation in federal health care programs.
Interim Healthcare, which self-disclosed the problem, did not respond to a request for comment.
More information about searching the ex-clusions database is at http://oig.hhs.gov/exclusions/index.asp.
Home Health & Hospice Week
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Consider CAHPS For 2016 As Start Date Approaches
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HHA Learns Exclusion Lesson The Hard Way
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