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OIG Offers New COVID-19 Tools and Guidance
Published on Wed Apr 07, 2021 
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Plus: Check out new FAQs, analysis, and enforcement activity. In a recent online overhaul, the feds updated their COVID-19 fraud insight with some new gadgets and tips for providers. Details: The HHS Office of Inspector General continues to get serious about COVID-19 fraud. The watchdog agency has added more resources to its COVID-19 Portal, “including a searchable list of our COVID-19 reports,” it says in a release. Other highlights on OIG’s COVID dashboard include quick links to auxiliary agencies, a strategic plan, enforcement actions, policy and guidance, and outreach. See the portal at www.oig.hhs.gov/coronavirus/index.asp.
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