Staying current on OIG and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rules is not only important for compliance reasons, but due to serious financial implications for providers as well. This new OIG Work Plan reports expected 2014 recoveries of over $4.9 billion, including nearly $834.7 million in audit receivables and about $4.1 billion in investigative receivables.

The investigative receivables encompass about $1.1 billion in non-HHS investigations in areas such as the states’ shares of Medicaid restitution and $15.7 million in savings from OIG recommendations.

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