Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

Failure to cross-check OIG exclusion list can hit you where it hurts the most -- in your pocket.Two home care providers are ruing not having looked up the background of their employees before hire. Unfortunately these employees turned out to be on the OIG's. See how you can avoid making the same mistake.Paying the government tens of thousands of dollars is the hard penalty these home care providers had to face this summer, according to information newly posted to the OIG's website. Cooperative Home Care in Missouri agreed to pay $121,010 for employing an individual that it knew or should have known was excluded from participation in Federal health care programs, the OIG says. And after it self-disclosed conduct to the OIG, Seasons Hospice and Palliative Care of Southern Florida Inc. in Florida, agreed to pay $73,428 for the same violation.Anyone who hires an individual or entity on the LEIE may be [...]