Understanding the Exclusion List OIG

Managing a healthcare organization can be overwhelming, as providing quality patient care is your foremost goal. However, you also have an enormous amount of behind-the-scenes paperwork and compliance to complete. Part of your hiring and managing of your healthcare workforce involves the OIG screening  process. If you are not familiar with OIG screening or want to learn more about it, then you are in the right place! We’ll go over what OIG screening is, why it is important, a

Selecting the right candidates is crucial across all industries; however, when it comes to selecting employees within the healthcare field, it becomes especially important due to a multitude of safety and compliance-related concerns associated with these employee decisions. When hiring an employee (e.g. a nurse, physician, coder/biller) to work in a medical practice or hospital, employers not only seek candidates with strong work skills but also have to consider whether prosp

When we go to the doctors to get help, we expect to be treated with respect and dignity. We count on the fact that whatever treatment we are receiving will work. However, how do we know the people giving us those treatments are trustworthy? How do we know that the medicines or treatments prescribed will work as expected and be the right ones for the diagnosis? The good news is there are many ways the healthcare system tries to prevent anyone from committing any violations by