Voluntary Disclosure Redux
OIG will be releasing new guidelines for its Voluntary Disclosure Program in about a month, says deputy IG Lew Morris. The guidelines will specify audit methodologies for providers who want to voluntarily confess their sins to OIG in return for a chance of more lenient penalties. Still, it's an open question whether the changes will revive a program that even Morris has admitted hasn't lived up to expectations. Only about a dozen providers have stepped forward, largely because health lawyers consider it folly to confess when the government offers no explicit guarantees that penalties will be mitigated.
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