OIG

jackstem · Mar 14, 2011

Here's a link to the OIG web site and it's FAQs. Hope this helps.

Office of Inspector General Frequently Asked Questions

Nurse attorney explains the OIG exclusion list

The Effect of Exclusion From Participation in Federal Health Care Programs

Good luck!

Jack

SWS RN, ASN, RN · Mar 14, 2011

I don't have much time right now, so I have to make this brief....you CAN work as a nurse while on the OIG list...however, you can not work at any facility that qualifies for Gov't reimbursment, ie, medicare/medicaide...etc..which pretty much disqualifies all hospitals and long term care facilities..

I was on the OIG list and I have written at length on how I was able to remove myself from it w/o the use of an attorney or other help (I do not have anything against attornies--I just didn't have any money)

If you will search my former posts you should be able to find the information that my help you.

Good luck---feel free to PM

s

determined_nurse · Mar 18, 2011

Thanks for the responses. I am in the process of applying to grad school for my MSN and hope the OIG exclusion doesn't affect my application process. Does anybody know if I'm able to get student federal loans while on the OIG list? Can a student do clinicals at a hospital if they are on the OIG list? All these questions I have are overwhelming! I was on a great path and doing awesome and was back to working as a nurse, now I'm on this list and cannot work. It's awful. I just sent letters to my representatives about this, I don't believe this is fair to have an addict or alcoholic not work due to their disease.

iheartkarma · May 31, 2011

You can get off this list. Don't let anyone in that office tell you otherwise. My Congressman did what thousands of dollars and multiple attorneys could not...got me directly in touch with senior counsel within the OIG. There is a restoration plan in place to help people get reinstated.

Nugs999 · Jul 1, 2011

I know that you CAN get student loans while on this list. The only thing that bars you from loans is a conviction in drug dealing. (whatever the legal terms are.)

I am not sure about clinicals, however. If your school will allow you to do clinicals while in a program/license probation, I would ask them specifically. :idea:

determined_nurse · Jul 1, 2011

With the help of my support network and with the help of a good lawyer I have been removed from the OIG list. I just received notificaton today. The best part is that I stayed sober through this whole mess. As a nurse I was the one always helping others but when times became tough, reaching out and asking for help was the best thing that I could do for myself. Everyone kept telling me that "it gets better" and it was so hard to believe when I was in the mess of it all. Today I believe this is true.

foraneman · Jul 5, 2011

I am new to this site and was wondering if any of you had info on the OIG exclusion list. I have been in recovery since March 2007 and half way through my 5 year nursing probation. I have been working as an RN since 2008 and just found out that I'm on the OIG exclusion list as of last month, I never received a letter for my right to repeal or fight it. It is a minimum of a 2 year exclusion and I cannot work as an RN until I'm off that list. Just asking for other experiences with this and the time frame off getting your name off the list. I have a lawyer who is working on getting me off the list but he isn't positive he can. Any help or info is appreciated. Thanks.

Since you have not included any additional details I am rather at a loss to explain why you would be on the OIG list at all, much less for a minimum of 2 years. Usually nurses with an addiction issue find themselves on the list due to a suspended or revoked license, and the term of the exclusion is the term of the suspension or revocation. Once the suspension or revocation is lifted, the exclusion can be petitioned to be lifted. The exclusion is not designed as some punishment in this instance but rather it is in place to prevent someone billing for work done by someone who has no valid license. Mere probation of a license is not a reason for exclusion. If there is a conviction for fraud, or a drug crime (or other crime the OIG designates as problematic) then things are different and exclusions with minimum set periods are common.

Isabelle49 · Sep 11, 2011

Good Grief I've never hear of an OIG list. I am so glad that I am retiring.

smv73 · Sep 26, 2011

Since you have not included any additional details I am rather at a loss to explain why you would be on the OIG list at all, much less for a minimum of 2 years. Usually nurses with an addiction issue find themselves on the list due to a suspended or revoked license, and the term of the exclusion is the term of the suspension or revocation. Once the suspension or revocation is lifted, the exclusion can be petitioned to be lifted. The exclusion is not designed as some punishment in this instance but rather it is in place to prevent someone billing for work done by someone who has no valid license. Mere probation of a license is not a reason for exclusion. If there is a conviction for fraud, or a drug crime (or other crime the OIG designates as problematic) then things are different and exclusions with minimum set periods are common.

Hi there. I'm doing a lot of investigation on reinstating my license and getting off the exclusions list. In your post above, you mention that "Mere probation of a license is not a reason for exclusion". Do you know if it is possible to apply for OIG reinstatement after license surrender once you get you license back under a consent order??

Appreciate your insights.

S

Cherjr · Oct 19, 2011

Please hear me....the OIG Exclusion List is discriminatory. After going thru drug court, RETAINING my nursing license through Peer Assistance, complying with drug court, Peer Assistance, getting my drug charge DISMISSED and sealed, I was placed on the OIG Exclusion List. After 5 job offers, and 5 jobs rescinded (it didn't matter if they received Medicare/Medicaid), no company would hire me. I finally had to cancel my contract with Peer Assistance as I couldn't comply with working 2 and 1/2 years of my 5 year contract, since no one would hire me. My lawyer wrote to OIG, I wrote to OIG, we sent documentation on my Recovery efforts...to no avail.

I recently sent a plea to the ACLU to assist me with my Exclusion. I sent documentation and blogs of other nurses suffering due to the Exclusion, as I believe it is violating our rights to work under state laws. But they refused my case.

The OIG discriminates. Sometimes they put you on the list, sometimes they don't. Sometimes they'll take you off, sometimes they won't.

If you've defaulted on federal loans for college, you're screwed. If you've made mistakes as a health care professional and are attempting to get your life back...you can't. They take it from you, they take your livelihood, without any remorse or legality...no due process.

I did not defraud the government, I did not abuse a patient, and I did not default on any loans...and I'm on this OIG Communist Exclusion List.

It is prosecution without jury, it is being blacklisted without due process, it is persecution at it's worst...here in the United States.

Cherije

Patwinsmom · Oct 22, 2013

Please send me an info how you have managed to get off OIG exclusion list. I can't find it among your previous posts.

Please email to [email protected]

I will really appreciate your expertise.

Julie