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Web sites to help ensure your lab compliance program is effective

Lab Safety Advisor, September 21, 2005

Welcome, readers of Laboratory Compliance Insider. This page features live links to various free government resources that will help your laboratory maintain an effective compliance program.

• OIG Compliance Program Guidance for Clinical Laboratories--go to www.oig.hhs.gov/authorities/docs/cpglab.pdf or www.oig.hhs.gov/fraud/complianceguidance.html (scroll to 1998 and click on "Compliance Program Guidance for Clinical Laboratories")
• OIG Supplemental Compliance Program Guidance for Hospitals--go to www.oig.hhs.gov/fraud/docs/complianceguidance/012705HospSupplementalGuidance.pdf or www.oig.hhs.gov/fraud/complianceguidance.html (scroll to 2005 and click on "Supplemental Compliance Program Guidance for Hospitals")
• OIG Compliance Program Guidance for Hospices--go to www.oig.hhs.gov/authorities/docs/hospicx.pdf or www.oig.hhs.gov/fraud/complianceguidance.html (scroll to 1999 and click on "Compliance Program Guidance for Hospices")
• U.S. Amended Sentencing Guidelines--go to www.ussc.gov/2004guid/8b2_1.htm (including commentary)
• 1994 OIG fraud alert--go to www.oig.hhs.gov/fraud/fraudalerts.html#1 (scroll to 1994 and click on "Publication of five special fraud alerts addressing.")
• OIG fraud alerts, special advisory bulletins, and other guidances--go to www.oig.hhs.gov/fraud/fraudalerts.html (the OIG issued guidances about biopsy needles and free lab supplies in 1997, guidances about discounts in 1999 and 2000, and a bulletin about joint ventures in 2003)
• OIG 2005 Work Plan--go to www.oig.hhs.gov/reading/workplan.html (click on "Current fiscal year" and then scroll to either "Entire Office of Inspector General Work Plan" or "Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services section" to just review the sections applicable to federal healthcare program issues
• OIG audit reports--go to www.oig.hhs.gov/reading/oas.html (click on "Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services" for audit reports)
• OIG advisory opinions--go to www.oig.hhs.gov/fraud/advisoryopinions.html
• CMS quarterly provider updates--go to www.cms.hhs.gov/providerupdate/
• CMS advisory opinions--go to www.cms.hhs.gov/physicians/aop/opinion.asp
• CMS Medlearn Matters articles--go to www.cms.hhs.gov/medlearn/matters/
• CMS transmittals--go to www.cms.hhs.gov/manuals/ (scroll to "Program transmittals" and click on the appropriate year)
   

If you have trouble with any of these links, please e-mail Senior Managing Editor Scott Wallask at swallask@hcpro.com.

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