Oig Work Plan: Make It Work For You

By Author: Angela Martin
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As part of its work, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) comes out with an annual work plan that describes the areas of interest of its work for the coming year. The OIG Work Plan identifies priority areas that the agency believes are Health and Human Services' (HHS) most vulnerable programs and activities for review.


Many providers treat the OIG Work Plan as an annual check-up. It identifies the issues that are relevant to them and then settle on what action they need to take to address those concerns within their organization.


Most of the projects that are mentioned in the work plan for 2009 focus on familiar themes such as quality of care, transparency, minimum data set (MDS), among others.


These work plans are a key tool for designing, coding and reimbursement processes that keep your health care organization compliant and profitable. A detailed understanding of the OIG's priorities ...
... not only clues you in to hot spots for Medicare and Medicaid services, but also gives you insight on what private players will be eyeing.


But it's not a cake walk to slog through OIG's work plans. For instance, the plan for the FY 2009 is 115 pages long. Moreover, to use the work plans effectively, you must be aware of the trends over the last five years; that adds up to hundreds of pages of reading and on top of it, lots of analysis too.


As such, an easy way to do this is by attending a 60-minute audio conferences which will give you the low down on the OIG work plan, teach you how to use the work plan to design a top-notch internal auditing system and compliance plan for your organization, among a host of other things that you need to know.


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