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	OIG’s List of Most-Wanted Health Care Fugitives Check out OIG’s first-ever list of most-wanted health care fugitives. These 10 individuals have allegedly defrauded taxpayers of millions of dollars. For OIG, tracking more than 170 health care fugitives is a challenge, but you can help. If you have a tip about a featured most-wanted fugitive, send the information our way!
	Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team Provider Compliance Training Office of Inspector General and other government experts are educating health care providers, compliance officers, and their legal counsel about the realities of Medicare fraud and the importance of implementing an effective compliance program. OIG will host our final free in-person training and webcast on May 18, 2011. Read more about the training and webcast.
	Roadmap for New Physicians: Avoiding Medicare and Medicaid Fraud and Abuse OIG conducted a survey (PDF) to learn what types of instruction medical students, residents, and fellows receive on Medicare and Medicaid fraud, waste, and abuse. OIG developed a document that summarizes the five main Federal fraud and abuse laws and provides tips on how physicians should comply with these laws. Take a look at the Roadmap.

05-10-2011: Fact Sheet on Forest Laboratories, Inc., and the Inspector General's Exclusion Authorities; Overmedication of Nursing Home Patients Troubling
By Daniel R. Levinson, Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services; Performance Data for the Senior Medicare Patrol Projects: May 2011 Performance Report (OEI-02-11-00110); Comparison of Third-Quarter 2010 Average Sales Prices and Average Manufacturer Prices: Impact on Medicare Reimbursement for First Quarter 2011 (OEI-03-11-00160); Medicaid Payments for After-Hours Services (OEI-07-11-00050); Audit of Palmetto Government Benefits Administrators' Medicare Part A Final Administrative Cost Proposals for Fiscal Years 2007 Through 2009 (A-04-10-04005); Review of High-Dollar Payments Processed by National Government Services for Long-Term Care Inpatient Services Provided Between October 1, 2006, and December 31, 2007 (A-05-09-00100); Audit of Group Health Incorporated's Final Administrative Cost Proposal for Fiscal Year 2008 (A-02-09-01026); Review of Medicare Fee-for-Service Payments Made by Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation for Medicare Advantage Enrollees During Calendar Years 2007 and 2008 (A-07-10-01091); Review of California's Invoicing of Rebates for Medicaid Compound Drug Expenditures-Electronic Claims (A-09-10-02006); Results of Limited Scope Review at Housing Solutions for the Southwest, Inc. (A-07-10-02767); Review of Georgia's Title IV-E Adoption Assistance Costs (A-04-09-03524)