CMS open payments | OIG exclusion list | Monthly OIG screen

  Venops is the leading name for providing sanction checks in compliance with HHS OIG screening . Every healthcare provider is directed under the law to get sanction screening for their employees and vendors to ensure they are in good standing and not excluded from engaging in any federal healthcare programs. Failure to comply would result in heavy fines and even the organization being blacklisted from participating in future federal healthcare programs. Why are OIG screening and sanctions checks important for healthcare providers? The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) is the biggest compliance assessment and fraud prevention authority in the US. It monitors every party and procedure that comes under the Department of Human and Health Services (HHS) within the US. In their aim at reducing fraud and inhumane practices that affect taxpayers both physically and financially, they gained authority under clauses 1128 and 1156 of the Social Security Act to prevent certain individuals...

Sanction screening is mandatory for every healthcare provider to continue to provide healthcare services. The Department of HHS OIG makes it very clear, regarding compliance with sanction screening and open payments CMS, that every healthcare provider must participate in the federal payments program. Venops provides healthcare providers with automated CMS open payments data for recipients to review their CMS open payments report and help protect them from financial penalties. What exactly are CMS Open Payments? CMS Open Payments were introduced by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) to eliminate fraud and waste in the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). CMS Open Payments require independent healthcare providers to make payment details publicly available for recipients to view and correct. This increases transparency and accountability and reduces cases of fraud by disclosing the payment records. This has led to a decline in false activity within the healthcare indus...

OIG is the highest healthcare compliance organization that monitors and sets the standards for verifying the exclusion status of all prospective and current employees and vendors. Venops is a recognized screening compliance provider by OIG and hence a leading name among patients and companies when it comes to checking OIG exclusion and performing checks on OIG-excluded parties for updating their current status. OIG Exclusion and Sanction Screening and its Importance The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) set up and enforced OIG exclusion and sanction screening for private parties like corporations and vendors to keep a check on compliance with the Social Security Act. The mission of maintaining an exclusions list OIG is to keep a list of parties who aren’t allowed to participate in the federal payers program, and only parties verified by the exclusion list can participate in the transaction. This program was implemented with the mission of combating fraud and waste in US Depar...