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Review OIG and GSA lists for provider exclusions

Healthcare Auditing Weekly, July 13, 2004

Take a look at the Office of Inspector General (OIG) and General Services Administration (GSA) sanction lists to make sure you're properly identifying excluded individuals and entities that could be working incognito-and compromising compliance-at your facility.

To complete a thorough review of the OIG and GSA lists, do the following:

• Go to http://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/exclusions.html to view the lists
• Import the lists into a database, such as Microsoft Access(tm)
• Match your organization's database with the government databases by using an application such as ACL Services Ltd. (http://www.acl.com)
• Determine whether your organization is using the appropriate updated OIG sanction list
• Identify names that appear on the sanction list and your organization list
• Determine whether your organization has been properly cross-referencing the OIG's list with your up-to-date organization records

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