Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Notes:
OIG Spends Vast Majority Of Its Time On CMS Oversight
Published on Fri Apr 21, 2023
If you feel the heat of the HHS Office of Inspector General鈥檚 gaze, it鈥檚 probably not your imagination. 鈥淎pproximately 80 percent of OIG鈥檚 resources are appropriated for oversight of [the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services,鈥� Inspector General Christi Grimm told the House Committee on Energy & Commerce in an April 18 hearing. 鈥淲e target prevention of problems in the first instance, prompt detection when problems occur, and rapid enforcement when problems rise to the level of fraud or abuse,鈥� Grimm said. See the entire hearing at .
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