OIG Work Plan for 2002 The Office of the Inspector General released its 2002 work plan, which among other initiatives announced its focus for reviews on the following types of professional services: 1. Monitoring access of beneficiaries to preventive health services 2. Billing for resident services 3. Correct use of consultation codes 4. One-day hospital admissions 5. Hospital discharges with subsequent readmissions within a short span of time 6. Consecutive inpatient hospital admissions 7. Correct use of advanced beneficiary notices (ABNs) 8. Application of the Physicians at Teaching Hospital (PATH) Regulations 9. Inpatient dialysis services 10. Bone density screening 11. "Incident to" the physician's care provision 12. Medical necessity for durable medical equipment 13. Billing for cholesterol testing 14. Payment for Epogen 15. Continued investigations of health care fraud allegations 16. Pharmaceutical commercial gifts and payments to providers 17. Organ donations at transplant hospitals.   Return to Contents | Return to Billing Compliance