The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a “Special Advisory Bulletin on the Effect of Exclusion from Participation in Federal Health Care Programs” on May 8, 2013-the first in over ten years. The OIG originally published a Special Advisory Bulletin in September 1999. The updated 2013 bulletin expands the OIG’s exclusion authority. Key Considerations from the 2013 OIG Exclusion Screening Advisory Bulletin: -Providers should check the OIG List of Excluded Individuals and Entities (LEIE) upon hire and periodically for employees and contractors. It also notes that the OIG updates the LEIE exclusion list monthly. -The prohibition for payment applies to administrators such as executives, human resources, information technology, accounting, general counsel and office managers who are on the OIG exclusion list.
-A hospital contracting with a staffing agency is required to ensure that the staffing agency has conducted OIG LEIE exclusion list searches on such staff.
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