In an effort to combat telehealth fraud, waste, and abuse, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) composed a special fraud alert that provides guidelines for collaborating with telehealth companies, reports mHealth Intelligence.
The article references an episode from the publication’s Healthcare Strategies podcast, on which associate Jake Harper was a guest, and he noted that “providers must be attentive to how they use telehealth throughout periods of changing regulations and prevalent frauds.”