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Beware Excluded Employees Or Pay The Price

Published on Fri Apr 22, 2022

Some recent Civil Money Penalty cases underscore why it’s important to check employees against the excluded individuals list. After it self-disclosed conduct to the HHS Office of Inspector General, the Harney County Health District in Oregon agreed to pay $10,000 for employing an individual that it knew or should have known was excluded from participation in Federal health care programs, [...]
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