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Tip: Make use of the OIG Work Plan

Healthcare Auditing Weekly, January 8, 2008

Take a systematic approach to address problems in 2008. Here are the six key steps to ensure that you are prepared if the OIG audits your facility in 2008:

1. Know your own facility. Have a complete understanding of your own organization and how it has changed recently in order to appropriately react to the OIG Work Plan. Ask yourself what services your facility provides. Determine whether your facility recently acquired any new (diagnostic or therapeutic) equipment.
2. Access helpful key documents. Broken down by topic, the 2008 Work Plan can help you focus on the areas applicable to your organization.
3. Focus on the aspects of the OIG plan that are due to be examined more closely in 2008. Pay particular attention to those areas involving the Office of Audit Services, which does the financial and performance audits of departmental programs. The OIG will actively investigate these topics, and that could cause trouble for your facility in the near future.
4. Measure your OIG focus area risk. Examine the risks identified in previous audits, hotline calls, and complaints, either from employees or patients. Look closely at those topics mentioned by the OIG that would potentially have the greatest effect on your organization.
5. Don't be blindsided. Look at all elements of the Work Plan that might affect your organization, not just the most obvious areas.
6. Create and execute an audit plan that addresses any problem areas. All audit topics should be addressed in a cycle over the course of several years, but your audit team should target issues highlighted in the OIG Work Plan as priorities.

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