tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 41

ENFORECEMENT WATCH: OIG Keeping A Hawk's Eye on Disaster Funds

Providers that mismanage funding could lose deserved money.Relaxed regulations in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath may make Medicare and Medicaid vulnerable to fraud and abusebut the HHS Office of Inspector General is already on guard to protect the programs from overspending and depleting rightful payments.OIG officials have been working hard--even before Hurricane Katrina made landfall--to prevent post-disaster fraud, abuse and funds misappropriations, HHS Deputy Inspector General for Audit Services Joseph E. Vengrin and Deputy Inspector General for Investigations Michael E. Little testified Sept. 28 before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.The OIG established...

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