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News Releases & Articles

OIG Settles Largest Ever Kickback Civil Monetary Action Against Pharmerica

March 29, 2005
OIG Publishes Supplemental Voluntary Compliance Program Guidance for Hospitals

Jan. 27, 2005
OIG Report Highlights Progress Against Waste, Abuse, And Fraud

Dec. 9, 2004
Lowering Rates And Adopting Alternative Methods Could Save Medicare Millions For Home Oxygen Equipment

Sept. 13, 2004
Statement of Dara Corrigan Acting Principal Deputy Inspector General Department of Health and Human Services on Thomas Scully and Richard Foster Investigation

July 6, 2004
OIG Initiates Kickback Civil Monetary Penalty Case Against Pharmerica: Demand Letter Seeks $21.8 Million and Ten Year Exclusion

June 23, 2004
OIG Reports Progress Against Waste, Abuse And Fraud

June 1, 2004
St. Francis Hospital to Pay $9.5 million in Settlement Under OIG’s Self-Disclosure Protocol

Feb. 11, 2004
OIG and Tenet Healthcare Corporation Reach Divestiture Agreement To Address Exclusion of Redding Medical Center

Dec. 11, 2003
OIG Reports Major Financial, Enforcement Successes

Dec. 3, 2003
Operation Lost and Found Nets Chronic Child Support Defaulters

Sept. 15, 2003
New Efforts Aimed at Stopping Abuse of the Power Wheelchair Benefit in the Medicare Program

Sept. 9, 2003
OIG Reports $12 Billion Saved in First Half of Fiscal Year

June 3, 2003
Wide Variation Among Transplant Centers in Procuring Organ Donors

June 2, 2003
Voluntary Compliance Guidance Issued for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers

April 28, 2003
Advisory Bulletin Targets Suspect Contractual Joint Ventures

April 23, 2003
Educational Resource to Assist Boards of Directors Oversee Corporate Compliance

April 2, 2003
OIG Issues Final Compliance Program Guidance for Ambulance Suppliers

March 24, 2003
HHS Inspector General’s Office Launches New Enforcement Section on its Web Site

March 18, 2003
HHS OIG Alerts Medicare Suppliers, Beneficiaries about Prohibited Telemarketing Calls

March 3, 2003