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- Healthcare Roundup: Aetna Pink Slips, MCO Recession Forecast, OIG Investigations, and More
- Aetna pink slips -- Just after predicting that its earnings per share would grow 3 to 5 percent in 2009, Aetna announced it was going to lay off 1,000 of its employees, or about 3 percent of its workforce. Ronald A. Williams, chairman and CEO of Aetna, said the layoffs...
- Blog posts 2008-12-18
- Inspector General Won't Take on Hospitals Over On-Call Pay
- The HHS Office of the Inspector General OIG has approved an unnamed hospital’s petition to reimburse physicians for on-call duties in the emergency department, saying that the hospital payments would not violate the government's anti-kickback rules. But this is unlikely to have much impact on other hospitals’ payments to physicians...
- Blog posts 2009-05-26
- Gainsharing is Becoming More Respectable
- Last month, I wrote about the latest opinion on gainsharingâ€"the sharing of operational savings by hospitals with physicians--from HHS’ Office of the Inspector General OIG. Although OIG had declared gainsharing illegal in July 1999, it told the hospital that had requested the advisory opinion that it could proceed with its...
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- OIG Slams Doctors for Using Unqualified Personnel
- Just when you thought you’d heard everything about the poor quality of care in our absurdly overpriced health system, something else comes along. Today, it arrived in the form of a report from the HHS Office of The Inspector General OIG. This report observes that unqualified non-physicians perform many clinical...
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
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- Overview of the OIG Compliance Program Guidance for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers
- On April 23, 2003, the Office of Inspector General OIG of the Department of Health and Human Services released the final Compliance Program Guidance for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers. The Guidance applies to companies that develop, manufacture, market, and sell pharmaceutical drugs or biological products, and is intended to assist these companies...
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- Planned Systems International, Inc. Selected as the Office of Inspector General's -OIG- Small Business Contractor of the Year 2004
- COLUMBIA, Md. -- In a ceremony held at the U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA Headquarters in late June, Planned Systems International, Inc. PSI, an information technology solutions and services company, was named the USDA's Office of Inspector General's OIG Small Business Contractor of the Year for 2004. OIG recognized PSI...
- Research articles 2004-07-20
- Council for Quality Respiratory Care (CQRC) Challenges Findings of OIG Cost Report on Medicare Home Oxygen
- WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Council for Quality Respiratory Care CQRC, a coalition of the nation's 11 leading home oxygen therapy provider and manufacturing companies, challenged the OIG cost study findings released today, citing the stuWASHINGTON, Sept. 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Council for Quality Respiratory Care CQRC,...
- Research articles 2006-09-14
- 'Comparing the VA to Medicare is like Comparing Apples to Oranges,' Says AAHomecare About OIG Report on Durable Medical Equipment
- ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In response to a report issued by the Department of Health and Human Services HHS Office of Inspector General OIG comparing payments made for durable medical equipment DME by Medicare compared to the DeparALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In response to...
- Research articles 2002-06-12
- USDA OIG Faults FSA for Mishandling of Biomass Contract
- The Associated Press AP recently reported that the U.S. Department of Agriculture's USDA Office of Inspector General OIG has released a new audit report, titled "Review of the [USDA] Farm Service Agency's [FSA] Control Over Contracting for the Disposal of Surplus Tobacco," which faults FSA for mishandling a contract with...
- Research articles 2004-08-30
- Interim Final Rule on OIG Civil Money Penalties Under the Medicare Drug Discount Card Program
- I. Introduction The Office of the Inspector General ("OIG") of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") has issued an interim final rule that sets forth the OIG's new authority for imposing civil money penalties ("CMPs") against endorsed sponsors under the Medicare prescription drug discount card...
- Research articles 2004-07-08
- OIG: unsecured remote controls threaten water utilities' security.(Office of Inspector General)(Brief Article)
- "Vulnerabilities may allow a person of malicious intent to cause significant harm" to the nation's water systems by accessing the computerbased remote controls used to initiate many of their functions, the Environmental Protection Agency's EPA Office of Inspector General OIG warned. OIG...
- Research articles 2005-01-25
- Turf battles over sharing fingerprints create security danger, warns DOJ OIG.(EPN News Roundup)(Brief Article)
- The squabbling among federal officials over how to share fingerprint files "creates a risk that a terrorist could enter the country undetected," according to the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General DOJ OIG. The 2002 Border Security Act requires DOJ, DHS,...
- Research articles 2005-01-11
- OIG critical of risk-based inspection program.(WASHINGTON)(Office of the Inspector General)
- A report on the issues impacting the development of risk-based inspection at meat and poultry processing facilities implemented back in 2004 was released last week by USDA's Office of the Inspector General OIG. Under the program, more inspection resources were to be placed at processing establishments...
- Research articles 2007-12-24
- Statement From Justice Department Spokesman Dean Boyd Regarding OIG Report on FBI's Use of National Security Letters: Corrective Actions and Use in 2006
- To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: U.S. U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs, +1-202-514-2007, or TDD, +1-202-514-1888 WASHINGTON, March 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following was released today by the U.S. Department of Justice: We are pleased with the Office of Inspector Generals OIG positive assessment of the many actions...
- Research articles 2008-03-13
- PharMerica Settles OIG Notice of Action; Company Pays Approximately $6 Million as Part of Settlement
- VALLEY FORGE, Pa. -- PharMerica, Inc., a subsidiary of AmerisourceBergen Corporation (NYSE:ABC), today announced a settlement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service's HHS Office of the Inspector General OIG regarding all issues related to the OIG's June 2004 administrative action against PharMerica Drug Systems, Inc. PDSI and...
- Research articles 2005-03-29
- Fiscal Year 2002 Results of OIG Efforts
- "This article mainly provides results of OIG Efforts in Fiscal Year 2002. The report is divided into four distinct sections and several appendices. The first two sections of the report provide an overview of the IG community and its efforts to accomplish strategic goals and objectives. A more high-level discussion...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- HHS OIG: Allegations of Misspending Were Unsubstantiated
- This document consists of a report that examines the allegations charged on certain officials in the HHS OIG's Office of Evaluation and Inspections OEI sponsored training and management meetings for nonwork purposes and improperly renovated a regional office. The allegations primarily focused on the actions of the Acting OEI Deputy...
- White papers 2004-04-30
- Huron Consulting Group Aligns with Former HHS OIG Counsel to Advise on Healthcare Compliance Issues
- CHICAGO -- Huron Consulting Group (NASDAQ: HURN), a leading provider of financial and operational consulting services, today announced that the Company will be working with Susan Lemanski to advise on compliance and corporate integrity agreement CIA matters with Huron's clients in the healthcare sector. Lemanski formerly served as counsel in...
- Research articles 2007-01-25
- OIG to conduct audit of BSE surveillance
- WASHINGTON, D.C. -- No date has been set for the completion of a far-reaching audit of the national surveillance program for bovine spongiform encepbalopathy BSE by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's inspector general, but "we hope it will be soon," David Gray, the inspector general's chief counsel, told Feedstuffs June...
- Research articles 2004-06-07
- OIG Releases Five New Advisory Opinions
- The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General OIG has released five new advisory opinions on the Federal Medicare/Medicaid Anti-Kickback statute. These are the first five Advisory Opinions this year. Advisory Opinion No. 02-1 concerns a non-profit, tax-exempt, charitable corporation funded largely by drug companies...
- Research articles 2002-07-17
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