OIG Refreshes General Compliance Program Guidance for Health Care Industry Stakeholders
Lexology November 17, 2023
On Nov. 6, 2023, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office of Inspector General (the “OIG”) issued its General Compliance Program Guidance User’s Guide (“GCPG”), a health care compliance program tool for health care providers and other health care industry stakeholders. The GCPG followed the OIG’s April 24, 2023 announcement in which the OIG stated its intention to refresh existing general and industry-specific compliance program guidance materials and resources.
The GCPG is the first new compliance guidance published by the OIG in approximately 15 years. Under the Social Security Act, certain health care providers are required to adopt a compliance program as a condition of enrollment. For health care providers that are not required to adopt a compliance...