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Document ActionsEPStaffCheck™Are you doing business with providers, vendors, or employees who have been excluded from Medicare or other government program participation? EPStaffCheck™ allows you to simply and immediately verify that your staff and other business relationships are not Medicare, Medicaid, or State Excluded or Sanctioned Individuals or Entities. Perform individual verifications as well as automatic pre-scheduled or periodic batch lists. State-based exclusion, fraud, and sanction lists also available, as well as license verification and monitoring. FREE 14-DAY TRIALEPStaffCheck is very user friendly. It saved us an enormous amount of time. HR Manager, Syracuse, NY The speed of the searches is fantastic! NB, Georgia Thank you! Thank you! You cannot imagine the amount of time you have given back to my life! I love it! EC, New York EPStaffCheck is more up to date than the OIG website for LEIE information. YF, Maryland I logged in and found it easily. Your program seems to be the most intuitive we have viewed. JP, Tennessee
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If you are not sure which agreement applies to your organization, please complete the following information sheet and return to support@yostengineering.com or fax to 888-565-1170. Click here to download the EPStaffCheck Questionnaire. Overview of the Excluded Provider ProgramPricing and Subscription InformationWe don't believe in charging you for every check you perform in our system. We want to encourage facilities to perform checks on a regular basis, so that they are very quickly made aware of any potential exclusions - thus avoiding large repayments. In fact, we recommend that clients run at least a monthly batch check on all of their staff, providers, and contractors. Why? Because it takes no extra time to do it, costs you nothing extra, and keeps you informed of what you need to know. Annual subscription, single business location:
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What is the Excluded Provider Program? Does it affect us?The federal and state excluded provider programs affect every organization that receives federal or state dollars, for medical and health services rendered, social service funds, and grant programs. Excluded individuals may include those who commit fraud or program abuse, who neglect to pay back certain federal student loans, or who commit other violations of federal and state law, and as a result are excluded from performing any work for federal or state programs. Organizations are not permitted to hire those individuals to administer or provide services that are in any way reimbursed or paid for with those public dollars. What are the federal guidelines on penalties if we unknowingly hire an excluded individual?The law provides for penalties of up to $10,000 for each item or service furnished. The law also provides for up to three times the amount claimed for each item or service. The rule of thumb is that the penalty should not be less than twice the approximated amount of damages and costs sustained by the government, including investigation costs, prosecution, and administrative case review. To view recent OIG settlement summaries, visit Civil Monetary Penalties. Repayments, fines and penalties for organizations who unknowingly hire such excluded parties can quickly reach tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. It is therefore critical that all healthcare providers and organizations that contract with government organizations or who receive state or federal dollars, check all new-hires before employment. Organizations must also conduct periodic follow-up checks of all employees, contractors, and medical staff to ensure that no new exclusion activity is appearing for existing staff or vendors. Is it difficult to do this checking on our own? How often do we need to do it?As organizations have discovered trying to check multiple federal and state databases through manual web page searches and downloading manual databases, is very time-consuming for staff. It is also error-prone, and does not provide a strong audit trail, which is required to demonstrate a good-faith compliance effort. Depending on what state you are in, you may be required to check all employees, vendors, contractors, and referring providers at least monthly. The average manual verification process takes 20-30 seconds for each employee, vendor, and provider -- quickly adding up to hours or days of wasted staff time every month. And the manual process requires that you review the same results over and over again, month after month. EPStaffCheck reduces this time to minutes per month, and eliminates reviewing the same results repeatedly. What documentation should we have in case of an audit?An audit trail should provide written proof of all names searched, the date they were initially searched and every subsequent date thereafter, a list of all possible matches that were reviewed, and the results of that review and the determination made. EPStaffCheck makes your exclusion-checking process fast, easy, and ready for audit!EPStaffCheck" is a low-cost, highly effective solution which will improve your compliance efforts, and reduce staff costs to perform these checks to only minutes per month. Our service monitors all of your subscribed federal and state databases and reports back to you in one simple format, eliminating the need to track multiple sources and run multiple checks. A subscription to EPStaffCheck is only $495/year for federal-level checking, and includes unlimited single-name checking as well as unlimited batch-list transactions. The base subscription includes the following national exclusion lists and options:
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