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October 2007Evaluating Healthcare Audit Priorities: The OIG Issues Its 2008 Work Plan By Paul A. Gomez Recently the Office of Inspector General of the $48.3 million in 2004. Department of Health and Human Services (“OIG”) Patient Care and Safety in Physician-Owned released its “areas of special concern” for the 2008 fiscal Specialty Hospitals year. As a guidepost to the OIG’s current and future audit initiatives, the 2008 Work Plan is essential reading The OIG intends to review patient care and safety in for compliance officers and provider administrators physician‐owned specialty hospitals. The OIG noted that charged with setting audit priorities for their internal concerns regarding the growth of specialty hospitals led corporate compliance programs. As described by the Congress to impose an 18‐month moratorium on referrals OIG, a healthy compliance program is constantly to new physician‐owned specialty hospitals. It also noted identifying new risk areas for investigation and audit. that in June 2005 CMS issued a memorandum suspending The OIG issues the Work Plan as a catalog of risk areas the processing of provider enrollment applications for new designed to guide hospitals and other healthcare specialty hospitals. The OIG did not elaborate about what providers and suppliers in the operation of their particular concerns led to its apparent concern for patient individual compliance plans. ...
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