HHS OIG To Share Software To Help Health Care Organizations Detect Telehealth Fraud

The HHS Office of Inspector General will share its software early this year with health care organizations and providers to help them discern fraudulent or erroneous telehealth billing practices in their organizations, an OIG official said. The HHS OIG released an updated telehealth fraud report on Dec. 1 that flagged 1,700 providers nationwide as high-risk for federal health care programs, a number that lobbyists downplayed at the time as miniscule . OIG has since said that it is not overly...