The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) has released another in series of Congressionally-mandated reports on Medicare market shares of mail order diabetes test strips, this one covering the three-month period after implementation of the National Mail-Order recompete on July 1, 2016.

The OIG suggests that CMS consider requiring that an entity be operated by a unit of government in order to certify the expenditures as the state's share of Medicaid expenditures.

Under current law, Medicare Parts B and D cover anticancer drugs for indications not approved by the FDA only if the drugs are supported by one or more of four authorized compendia.

A recent OIG report examined whether hospices are meeting all requirements associated with the election statement that Medicare beneficiaries sign when they choose hospice care...

The OIG has issued a report entitled "Limitations in Manufacturer Reporting of Average Sales Price Data for Part B Drugs."

The OIG estimates that CMS made $7.5 million in incorrect Medicare payments to hospitals in 2010 and 2011 for outpatient clinic visits, in part because of errors in identifying patients as "new" versus "established."

The OIG has issued an ACA-mandated report on Medicare Part D prescription drug plan and MA drug plan coverage of drugs commonly used by full-benefit dual-eligible individuals.

The OIG has issued its latest Semiannual Report to Congress, covering the period of October 1, 2012 to March 31, 2013.

An OIG report released in December 2013 assessed the extent to which hospitals that received Medicare EHR incentive payments as of March 2012 had implemented fraud safeguards for EHR technology previously recommended by an HHS contractor, RTI International, and set forth in a 2007 HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) report.

<p>The OIG has announced an online submission process for the Self-Disclosure Protocol, which is a vehicle for providers who wish to voluntarily disclose self-discovered evidence of potential fraud to the OIG;

The OIG has updated its guidance for providers under Corporate Integrity Agreements regarding the circumstances that might affect the independence and objectivity of independent review organizations (IROs).

CMS made $26.2 million in payments to Medicare Advantage organizations for approximately 1,600 unlawfully present beneficiaries from 2010 through 2012.

The Office of Management and Budget has cleared a proposed rule that would expand the OIG’s Medicare and state health care program fraud and abuse authorities.

The HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has published a notice correcting errors and clarifying provisions of its October 16, 2015 rule...

The HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has released its final "Roadmap" to promote the secure exchange and use of electronic health information.

On October 7, 2015, President Obama signed into law H.R. 1624, which amends the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) definition of "small employer" by maintaining the definition of a small group market as 1-50 employees...

On July 30, 2015, President Obama signed into law:

In signing the bill, the President called on Congress to finish the job and provide adequate funding to deal with this public health crisis."

On August 6, 2015, President Obama signed into law H.R. 876, the Notice of Observation Treatment and Implication for Care Eligibility Act.

On April 1, 2014, President Obama signed into law H.R. 4302, the "Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014" ("the Act").