OIG offers online videos on healthcare compliance

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General's (OIG's) Healthcare Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team has hosted a series of compliance trainings throughout the country for compliance professionals, healthcare businesses, and in-house counsel. The OIG posted a video of the Washington, DC, training on HEAT's website. In addition to the three-hour and forty-five-minute training video, OIG will release a series of shorter videos, broken down into discrete subject areas so viewers can choose which segments to watch. Presentation slides for the training and eleven related handouts are also available on HEAT's website. These materials offer a valuable tool for developing or delivering internal compliance trainings, and for raising awareness about compliance within healthcare organizations. Compliance professionals will want to ensure that annual and effectiveness review efforts acknowledge these OIG materials as part of any effective review.