HHS OIG Work Plan: FDA Oversight And DME, Inpatient Payments Make List
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General 1outlined Oct. 1 more than 300 new and ongoing investigations on its to-do list for fiscal year 2009, including digging into how Medicare pays for durable medical equipment and examinations of hospital inpatient payments and FDA device oversight
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