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Properly Prescribed, Power Wheelchairs Prevent Falls and Keep Thousands of Seniors and People with Disabilities Safe and Independent at Home, Lowering Healthcare Costs for Taxpayers WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A July 2011 report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) about power wheelchair usage in Medicare back in 2007 has resulted in misleading articles published in several media outlets, including USA Today. The...
Council of Prison Locals Seeks to Protect Workers from Future Toxic Exposure WASHINGTON, Aug. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council of Prison Locals (CPL) of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) today criticized the Bureau of Prison's (BOP) failure to implement safety recommendations to its Federal Prison Industries program - also known as UNICOR. Last year, the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General found staff and inmates at several BOP facilities were...
Appearing in the video are HHS IG Daniel Levinson, NY Medicaid IG James G. Sheehan, and Chief Counsel to the HHS IG Lewis Morris MINNEAPOLIS, July 5, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) today released a complimentary seven minute video - entitled Compliance Oversight for Health Care Leaders - has been produced as a result of a partnership between HCCA, the Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General, and University Hospitals Health...
TurningPoint Global Solutions, a software engineering and Information Technology (IT) professional services firm, today announced that it has been selected by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide technology upgrades and maintenance support for two database applications currently used by CMS in its work to combat Medicare fraud, waste and abuse. Rockville, MD (PRWEB) June 07, 2011 Specifically, these applications are known as the CMS Complaints Database...
Roughly one in three FBI agents investigating national security-related computer intrusions lack the required technical skills to perform their jobs, according to a government report released on Wednesday.Furthermore, agents are often transferred or diverted to other cases, preventing them from investigating cyber attacks involving national security. Of the 36 agents interviewed during the review, 13 were deficient in at least some of the critical skills needed to do their job, read the...
Absent Action, CtW Urges VOTE NO on Audit Committee Directors and CFO WASHINGTON, April 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The CtW Investment Group sent a letter to the Community Health Systems' (NYSE: CYH) board of directors on Friday threatening a Vote No campaign against directors seeking re-election at Community's May 17 shareholder meeting unless the board immediately provides a compelling response to concerns regarding Community's aggressive Medicare billing practices. The Investment Group's...
(ISC)2® ("ISC)-squared"), the world's largest information security professional body and administrators of the CISSP®, today announced it has appointed three new members to its U.S. Government Advisory Board (GAB). Palm Harbor, Fla. (Vocus/PRWEB) April 11, 2011 (ISC)2® ("ISC)-squared"), the world's largest information security professional body and administrators of the CISSP®, today announced it has appointed three new members to its U.S. Government Advisory Board...
BALTIMORE, April 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- CMS Headquarters -- CRE has just requested that the HHS Inspector General investigate and issue a decision stating that CMS must release the financial standards for competitive bidding, see the attachment hereto. I am here to ask you today to write the IG, but not as a member of PAOC, instead as an individual. Speaking for yourself, not PAOC you should make the following points: (1) Since PAOC has never issued a report in its history and...
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Bridgepoint Education, Inc. (NYSE: BPI), a provider of postsecondary education services focused on providing higher access to higher education, today announced that its regionally accredited academic institution, Ashford University, received the Final Audit Report from the U.S. Department of Education's (DOE) Office of Inspector General (OIG) covering the University's administration of Title IV, Higher Education Act programs. In its Final Audit...
Agency announces new measures that will better ensure humane treatment of cattle presented for processing Washington, DC (Vocus/PRWEB) December 22, 2010 The USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) today announced several measures that will better ensure the humane treatment and slaughter of all cattle presented for processing at FSIS-inspected facilities. "Under this Administration, we have significantly strengthened our ability to enforce the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act,...
