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29 Jun 2011, 3:57 am
” In such cases the retiree’s retirement allowance is suspended until the date he or she vacates such elective public office, unless the amount earned for any calendar year for that elective public office does not exceed the earning limitation provided for retired persons in section two hundred twelve of the retirement and social security law. [read post]
17 Jun 2011, 7:11 am
OPM’s Officer of Inspector General retains the discretion to share health information for law enforcement purposes, for litigation and with contractors and grantees working with the federal government (such as fraud investigators). [read post]
9 Jun 2011, 12:34 pm
This investigation was conducted by agents from the Little Rock Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Social Security Administration Office of Inspector General, and Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation. [read post]
9 Jun 2011, 12:34 pm
This investigation was conducted by agents from the Little Rock Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Social Security Administration Office of Inspector General, and Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation. [read post]
22 May 2011, 10:20 am
" Fallout from the Wall Street Journal story began to be felt almost immediately as investigators from the SSA's inspector general's office descended on Huntington and Utah Sen. [read post]
20 May 2011, 5:28 am
Social Security Search: Investigators from the Social Security Administration's inspector general's office descended on Huntington, W.Va., after The Wall Street Journal detailed the high award rate of an administrative law judge there, the Journal reports. [read post]
29 Apr 2011, 6:09 pm
A recent report from the SSA's Office of Inspector General (OIG) says that while the SSA is relying more and more on video hearings, the Administration's New York region has lagged behind in implementing the new technology. [read post]
18 Apr 2011, 2:46 am
DOL OIG Issues Report on Proxy Voting by Pension Funds The Office of Inspector General-Office of Audit of the U.S. [read post]
11 Apr 2011, 12:04 pm
Employers who fail to provide coverage at all not only cheat their employees but also cheat the government by not paying unemployment, Social Security and Medicare taxes, and if a worker gets seriously injured taxpayers pick up the hospital bill as Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security enter the picture. [read post]
1 Apr 2011, 12:10 am
In addition, the Office of Inspector General issued an ACO announcement, highlighting the coordination across multiple agencies related to ACOs: CMS and HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) jointly issued a notice with comment period outlining proposals for waivers of certain Federal laws-the physician self-referral law, the anti-kickback statute, and certain provisions of the civil monetary penalty law-in connection with the Shared Savings… [read post]
9 Mar 2011, 11:56 pm
In testimony March 9 before the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs, Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security, HHS Inspector General provided an overview of the Administration’s efforts to combat health care fraud. [read post]
2 Dec 2010, 9:04 am
District Court in Austin, including five who have not yet been arrested, said Antonio Puente, a special agent with the Social Security Administration's Office of the Inspector General, which spearheaded the investigation. * * * "Each defendant arrested in the case faces a charge of misuse of a Social Security number, a federal felony punishable by up to five years in prison. [read post]
1 Nov 2010, 12:37 pm
On October 20, 2010, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services issued significant new guidance for implementing its permissive exclusion authority under section 1128(b)(15) of the Social Security Act. [read post]
25 Oct 2010, 10:04 pm
On October 20, the Office of Inspector General of HHS issued a Guidance for Implementing Permissive Exclusion Authority under Section 1128(b)(15) of the Social Security Act, describing the methods it would follow in determining whether to exclude the owners, officers, or managers of sanctioned healthcare providers. [read post]
18 Oct 2010, 3:34 am
Hall's post discussed an Office of Inspector General report which addressed the issue of differing allowance rates among the ALJs and the various state DDS agencies. [read post]
17 Oct 2010, 11:56 am
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) requires the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), with the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of HHS, to establish a protocol for healthcare providers and suppliers to disclose actual or potential violations of Section 1877 of the Social Security Act (Stark Act). [read post]
12 Oct 2010, 5:35 pm
On Oct. 5, 2010, the Department of Health and Human Services, CMS, the Office of Inspector General and the Federal Trade Commission conducted a workshop regarding ACOs and implications of Stark physician self-referral law, the federal anti-kickback statute, civil monetary penalties law, and federal antitrust law. [read post]
28 Sep 2010, 10:15 am
In addition to eroding civil liberties, fusion center overreach has resulted in wasted resources without concomitant gains in security. [read post]
8 Aug 2010, 2:00 pm
It states in relevant part: Healthcare Fraud and Abuse Control Account In addition to amounts otherwise available for program integrity and program management, $561,000,000, to remain available through September 30, 2012, to be transferred from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund, as authorized by section 201(g) of the Social Security Act, of which $376,167,000 shall be for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid… [read post]
4 Aug 2010, 9:17 am
An audit by the Department of Justice Inspector General found that in the mid-2000s, the FBI issued upwards of 50,000 national security letters, often to get information about U.S. citizens, and sometimes to get info on people two or three times removed from an actual suspect. [read post]
