HHS IG PROBE OF HOSPITAL BILLING FOR UNAPPROVED DEVICES
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
HHS IG PROBE OF HOSPITAL BILLING FOR UNAPPROVED DEVICES is "lawful and appropriate," Inspector General June Gibbs Brown said in a Sept. 20 letter denying a request from 14 healthcare groups for a moratorium on the investigation. The Office of Inspector General, Brown said, "is seeking and will continue to seek, documentation, through its subpoena authority, as part of an open, active investigation....We decline to place a 'moratorium' on it."