This year’s list includes the following challenges:
- Overseeing the health insurance marketplaces
- Transitioning to value-based payments for healthcare
- Ensuring appropriate use of prescription drugs in Medicare and Medicaid
- Protecting the integrity of an expanding Medicaid program
- Fighting fraud and waste in Medicare Parts A and B
- Preventing improper payments and fraud in Medicare Advantage
- Ensuring quality of care in nursing facilities and home- and community-based settings
- Effectively using data and technology to protect program integrity
- Protecting HHS grants and contract funds from fraud, waste and abuse
- Ensuring the safety of food, drugs and medical devices
More Articles on the OIG:
Why Anesthesiologists Should be Aware of OIG’s Plans to Eliminate EHR Fraud, Abuse
OIG: Steward’s St. Elizabeth’s Must Refund $1.2M in Medicare Errors
OIG: Hospitals Are Not Using Recommended Fraud Safeguards in EHRs
