Fiscal Year 2012 HHS OIG Work Plan

The Federal Inspector General for Health and Human Services performs the vital function of preventing (when it is feasible) and finding (when it has occurred) health care fraud and abuse.  The OIG is involved in bringing order and justice to the system. Because health care comprises about 17% of our gross domestic product, the potential financial reward for fraud is enormous and the opportunity  for individuals and organized criminal groups to steal from the citizens of the United States is substantial.

The OIG's Green Book "sets forth various projects to be addressed during the fiscal year by the Office of Audit Services, Office of Evaluation and Inspections, Office of Investigations, and Office of Counsel to the Inspector General."

If you are health care provider, health care attorney, administrator, financial advisor or involved in payment for health care services, the Green Book is an important read. And if you plan to make your living by defrauding our government, taxpayers, those who pay health care bills, the Green Book sends a clear warning: our government goes after cheaters.