CMHA has revised its Selection and Hiring Policy to include certain mandatory alerts and action items whenever an OIG exclusion inquiry shows an individual has been excluded. In addition, the policy has been updated to explicitly referenceOIG exclusion inquiries as part of the screening process and requires regular inquires to be performed on the entire staff of active employees, interns, vendors, and independent contractors every 60 days. CMHA is also in the process of contracting with a vendor to perform these regular OIG exclusion inquiries.
CMHA maintains the good faith belief that the corrective actions described above will mitigate the risk of hiring or retaining an individual who has been excluded from participating in Medicare, Medicaid, or any other Federal health care program going forward.