Category: Medicaid Enforcement

Medicaid Enforcement

Current States With a Separate Medicaid Exclusion List
Current States With a Separate Medicaid Exclusion List
Map of the States with a Separate Medicaid Exclusion List Click on your state to view their Medicaid...
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California Exclusion List Screening Requirements
What are the California Exclusion List Screening requirements?  The Medi-Cal Program will not pay...
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Pennsylvania Medicheck Preclusion List: A Provider’s Guide to Screening
The Pennsylvania Precluded Provider List, commonly referred to as “Pennsylvania Medicheck,” identifies...
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California's Medi-Cal Suspended and Ineligible Provider List is Designed to Safeguard Beneficiaries and Protect the Financial Integrity of the Medi-Cal Program.
An Overview of the Medi-Cal Suspended and Ineligible Provider List
Most healthcare providers and suppliers in the State of California are aware that exclusions imposed...
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that health care providers review the Social Security Death Master File on at least a monthly basis.
Why Should We Screen Against the Social Security Administration Death Master File?
At Exclusion Screening, we often receive questions about the scope and frequency of an organization’s...
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North Carolina Exclusion Screening Requirements
To understand the North Carolina Exclusion Screening Requirements, we must first touch upon Exclusions...
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Exclusion Actions Under 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7(b)(5)(B) -- The Collateral Consequences of a State Medicaid Enrollment Termination Action
Exclusion Actions Under 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7(b)(5)(B)  (November 2020):  Since 1976, the Department...
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Massachusetts Medicaid Exclusion Screening Requirements
Massachusetts Medicaid Exclusion Screening: Requirements and Best Practices for Compliance The Massachusetts...
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Pennsylvania Doctor Excluded in Connection with Quality of Care
Over the past year, both State and Federal law enforcement investigators and prosecutors have gone to...
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Alabama Exclusion Screening Requirements
(May 2, 2019) The Alabama Medicaid Program imposes significant exclusion screening requirements on its...
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Personal Care Service Aides and Attendants Excluded in 2017
(January 22, 2018): With 2017 behind us, it can be quite helpful to review the Medicare “exclusion”...
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OIG Issues Final Rule Expanding Exclusion Authority
By Paul Weidenfeld January 23, 2017 On January 12, 2017, the Office of Inspector General published a...
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OIG Issues Updated Criteria for Implementing Its Permissive Exclusion Authority
On April 18, 2016, the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG)...
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Exclusion Loophole: Medicaid Managed Care
In August, we discussed an OIG audit, which revealed that Medicaid providers who were terminated for...
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Medicaid Providers That Are Excluded or Terminated for Cause Often Continue to Participate in Other States According to a New OIG Audit
  OIG Audit Findings In a recently released audit, the OIG found that despite the ACA requirement...
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OIG Releases Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) Annual Report for FY2014
I.   Gains in State Exclusion Enforcement Efforts Highlighted The Office of the Inspector General’s...
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Medicare and Medicaid Exclusion Screening Compliance: A Challenging Problem with a Surprisingly Simple Solution©
Since August 2014, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) has collected roughly $3.75 Million in...
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Alert to Florida Providers Regarding Screening
I.  Florida’s State Exclusion. Excluded Providers Costs OIG Over 2.7 Million The Office of...
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CMS Finds Fault with Exclusion Information Sharing Between States
I.  Take It from CMS: If You’re Excluded in One State, You’re Excluded in All States Section...
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