A federal watchdog said Tuesday it has begun auditing nursing homes’ use of the Patient Driven Payment Model to drive skilled ...

Efforts to reduce avoidable inpatient hospitalizations among nursing facility residents have been ongoing for years. As an example of these initiatives, CMS ran a program from 2012 to 2020 focusing on ...

A recent audit by the Office of the Inspector General found that a sampled Medicare Advantage organization did not comply with federal requirements for the program. The OIG reviewed one MA ...

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) has released a new video on combating durable medical equipment (DME) fraud.

OIG has recommended that NIH strengthen cybersecurity for the All of Us Research Program to better protect participant health ...

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Medicare paid for medical services that the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) had also paid for, resulting in duplicate payments of up to $128 million over five years, revealed an audit performed ...

This month, OIG published its findings relating to its audit on providers who sought reimbursement from Medicare for bad debts. OIG conducted the audit to confirm whether: (a) providers complied with ...

Documentation errors and omissions for tele-mental health services accounted for $348 million. More than half of the $1 billion in temporary pandemic-related psychotherapy services paid by Medicare in ...

The American Hospital Association has reiterated its request that HHS bring a stop to the HHS Office of Inspector General's hospital compliance reviews. In a letter to HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell, ...

In examining how the Office of Civil Rights administered its periodic Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act audit program from January 2016 through December 2020, the U.S. Department of ...