by Evan Gwilliam | Nov 10, 2024 | Compliance
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG), which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is an agency that works to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) in government programs. It focuses on Medicare and Medicaid, as well as about...
by Evan Gwilliam | Sep 29, 2024 | Compliance
The Physician Self-Referral law (PSL), or Stark law, as it is sometimes called, limits physician referrals for Medicare and Medicaid patients when there is a financial relationship with the entity to which the patient is sent. This applies to “designated health...
