tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 12

Fraud & Abuse: MANY WATCHDOGS EYE HEALTH CARE FRAUD

Health care providers that think the feds are going to get lax about the fight against health care fraud anytime soon are in for a rude awakening, as the recent imbroglio over HHS Office of Inspector General chief Janet Rehnquist makes clear. Rehnquist announced her intention to leave office March 4, after fraud hawk Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) and others raised numerous questions about her management of the OIG and spear headed a move to launch a General Accounting Office probe into her tenure. Her plan was to resign effective June 1. Settled? Not quite yet — even the...

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