tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2011 Issue 7

INDUSTRY NOTES

CMS resolves vast majority of hotline complaints, OIG report says. As most Part B practices know, the OIG maintains a hotline through which individuals can submit complaints or allegations of fraud and abuse -- but it's never been clear what the OIG does with those issues -- until now. On March 21, the OIG released the results of its report, "CMS's Processing of Complaints Received Through the 1-800-HHSTIPS Hotline," and the information is promising. During its review, the OIG identified 1,427 complaints that it sent to CMS over the first six months of 2008 and followed up...

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