HEAT Healthcare Toolkits Posted on OIG Website

Written by Reed Tinsley | March 22, 2012

 

The Healthcare Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT) and the Office of Inspector General have posted a Toolkit consisting of a series of podcast training videos on the following subjects:

• How to Use the Exclusions Database
• How to Report Fraud to the OIG
• OIG’s Self-Disclosure Protocol
• Tips for Implementing an Effective Compliance Program
• Compliance Program Basics
• Physician Self-Referral Law
• False Claims Act
• Federal Anti-Kickback Statute

For any size physician practice, you should view these training videos - compliance is a very HOT topic these days, not only on a Federal level but a State level as well.

http://oig.hhs.gov/newsroom/podcasts/index.asp

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