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OIG Touts Billions In Fraud Recoveries

Published on Tue May 26, 2009

Feds go after billing company employees. If you're wondering how much incentive regulators have to monitor your compliance, look no further than the HHS Office of Inspector General's latest semiannual report to Congress. In the first half of fiscal year 2009, the OIG generated $2.4 billion in recoveries from providers engaged in fraud and abuse, the watchdog agency says. "These recoveries reflect our dedicated efforts to reduce fraud, waste, and abuse in HHS programs," Inspector General Daniel Levinson says in a release.And providers should expect the scrutiny to only get worse under the Obama administration. "We will continue to employ all of our audit, evaluation, investigation, and legal tools ... to accomplish this vital and expanding mission," Levinson adds. In addition to home health agency and hospice cases (see Eli's HCW, Vol. XVIII, No. 22, p. 174), the OIG semiannual report profiles the scheme of two Florida durable medical equipment [...]
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