Understanding Exclusion Checks

Streamline Your Monthly Exclusion Check Process to Better Align With Your Compliance Program  Performing monthly exclusion checks is essential for reducing the risk of penalties due to non-compliance but the process can also be taxing. Allow us to introduce you to LW Consulting, Inc.’s LWEnSCheck® Exclusions Software – designed to offer relief and support! Our software allows for easy and efficient screening to ensure your staff and business partners are not excluded from federally funded…

Has Your Organization Created a Compliance Work Plan for 2025?

As we near the end of 2024, organizations should be preparing and planning for 2025. Part of this preparation is developing a 2025 Compliance Work Plan to establish your organization’s focus areas. Your organization’s work plan should include compliance, privacy, security and may even include legal. Some of the elements may include operations, developing policies and procedures, training, and auditing and monitoring. The items included should be areas that need to be improved or developed…

What is the New Nursing Facility ICPG?

Just last month the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) put out an Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program Guidance for Skilled Nursing Facilities and Nursing Facilities (Nursing Facility ICPG). Since 1998, the OIG has been issuing voluntary Compliance Program Guidance documents (CPGs) directed at various segments of the health care industry. At the center of this CPG modernization effort is the OIG’s General Compliance Program Guidance (GCPG), a reference guide for the health care compliance community…