OIG Update Modernizes Compliance Program Guidance
Lexology December 1, 2023
For the first time in 15 years, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) has issued updated compliance program guidance. The release of this guidance is part of the OIG’s two-step approach to modernize its current compliance program guidance. In April 2023, the OIG indicated that it would publish general compliance program guidance by the end of 2023 as the first step to modernizing its current guidance and would then publish industry-specific compliance program guidance for different types of providers, suppliers, and other participants in health care industry subsectors or ancillary industry sectors relating to federal health care programs.
Unlike the OIG’s previous compliance program guidance, which focused on specific segments of the health care industry, this new guidance applies generally...