tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2004 Issue 36

Enforcement Watch: Why 2005 Could See An Even Stronger OIG

Find out how the watchdog will be keeping busy with beefed-up funding.The Medicare Modernization Act has a slew of new tasks for the HHS Office of Inspector General to juggle - but where is the funding it needs to keep pace? According to Senate Finance Committee leaders, the money had better be on its way.In the Sept. 14 letter to Senate appropriators, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) try to reverse a technical snag in the drafting of the MMA that prevents the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from giving the OIG any...

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