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Handling an OIG Audit with Confidence: Focus Areas for 2024

Compliancy Group

Focus Areas for 2024 The OIG’s General Compliance Program Guidance (GCPG) establishes industry-specific compliance program guidance (ICPG) for 2024 that focuses on forms of fraud, waste, and abuse specific to certain types of suppliers, providers, and entities like nursing homes, clinical laboratories, and hospitals.

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2024 HHS-OIG Top Areas of Focus

Provider Trust

Though HHS has made efforts to address the challenges outlined in this year’s report, there are still many opportunities for improvement in 2024. We’ve broken down the report’s primary themes and how they affect healthcare organizations moving forward in 2024.

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Health Provider News

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Million CALIFORNIA California hospital dismisses CEO California physician pleads guilty to $2.5M million expansion ‘Very, very unusual.’ Million CALIFORNIA California hospital dismisses CEO California physician pleads guilty to $2.5M million expansion ‘Very, very unusual.’

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The FTC Hosts Workshop on Private Equity in Health Care

Healthcare Law Blog

On March 5, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“the FTC”) hosted a public workshop titled “Private Capital, Public Impact: An FTC Workshop on Private Equity in Health Care”, which covered the impact of private equity investment on the health care system. 1] Health care market participants (i.e.

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Health Provider News

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hospital sees less severe cases Georgia Supreme Court vacates judgement in case with Northside Hospital, NGMC Poor Health: How Is Georgia Addressing The State’s Mental Health Woes? ’ and highlights community partnerships in newly released Annual Report MARYLAND Baltimore jury awards $1.5M

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OIG Issues Highly Anticipated General Compliance Program Guidance

Hall Render

Since the release of its first compliance program guidance (“CPG”) for hospitals in 1998, OIG has developed a series of voluntary CPGs directed at various subsets of the health care industry, such as hospitals, nursing homes, third-party billing companies, clinical laboratories, among many others.

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Weekly Health Care Real Estate Briefing: Government Plans to Define “Zero Emissions” Building for the Real Estate Industry | 10 Largest Non-Profit Nursing Home Providers I MOBs Remain an Attractive Investment

Hall Render

The federal government plans to define “zero-emissions building” for the real estate industry. According to a new report , CMS’s minimum staffing proposal for nursing homes would require nursing home operators to hire 102,000 additional nurses at a cost of $6.8B.