Joseph Rugg's Health Law Blog

For those of you who have not yet embraced social networking as a tool in your profession, it’s time.  

On May 23, the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services began tweeting.  So far, the OIG has tweeted 13 times to its 331 followers.  The tweets have been about the OIG’s audit activities, healthcare fugitives, medicare fraud, and the like.  The OIG’s tweets can be read in this blog.

The OIG is providing valuable information to those of us practicing in the area of healthcare, and the information is delivered in a timely fashion.

Yesterday we were informed of 20 indictments in Miami.

Tomorrow?  Who knows what tomorrow brings.

We do know this — these people in the Medicare Fraud Strike Force are on a mission.  911 and terrorists may have provided a momentary distraction from President Clinton’s Operation Restore Trust.  But not any longer. 

Remind your healthcare clients that “everyone is doing it” is no defense (and isn’t true) — after all, “everyone” includes the 131 persons who were caught.