Choose Your Health Care Service Provider Wisely

 

If you are in the process of deciding the health care service provider for yourself and your family, make sure that you check the California Exclusion List. This contains the names and identities of individuals and health service providers who are not accredited by the Federal Health to provide service to individuals. To havean OIG background check for the health service providers is important.

The office of Inspector General’s (OIG) list of excluded individuals and entities (LEIE) is a database that is generally updated on a monthly basis. Healthcare providers have a duty in screening perspectives and all the current employees against all the LEIE. There are several guidelines governing the OIG screening. They have a series of voluntary compliance programs directed at various segments of the health care industry like hospitals, nursing homes, third-party billers, and also the durable medical suppliers controlling the adherence to certain standards. The OIG LEIE is significant in this respect.

According to the rules set by the federal health certain facts are significant.

·         The health care individual has to be listed by the Federal health government.

·         Generally the health care provider has to bear the cost of the client’s health requirements and also the insurer in this case.

·         The companies and individuals who are not on the list cannot be the beneficiary. In this case, any service provider like nursing or technical service has to abide by the listing procedure so that the beneficiary can get the full advantage.

Why do the background check?

To do a background check of your health care provider is quite important. In the case of individual service providers like the nurse and technical experts, they have to be listed so that the beneficiary can get the full advantage of reimbursement of the amount spent.

Maybe if you find a name that is on the list and you are using the services of the said company for your health benefits, you may not be reimbursed with the same. So, it’s essential that you check the list before getting any service done from a particular company.