Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

Would you know how to write an annual report to the OIG? We've got expert tips. Medical practices hear so much about compliance and billing fraud that it can be hard to separate fact from reality. But today we've got the expert answers to two compliance questions submitted by our readers. Button Up Your Annual Reports Question: Our practice was under OIG scrutiny, and long story short, we're now under a five-year corporate integrity agreement (CIA). We're required to submit an annual report to the OIG to outline our compliance activities, but aren't sure how to write it. Should the physician write it himself, or is it okay for the office manager to do it? Answer: "Since these annual reports are in large part factual confirmations, it is probably tempting to do them without incurring the expense of outside counsel or consultants,"says William W. Horton, Esq., with Haskell Slaughter Young [...]