July 2016 Exclusion Alert

Employment & Compliance Alert

We have provided the list of new program exclusions for the month of July as published on the OIG website. Health care providers are prohibited from employing or contracting with an excluded person or entity, and face significant penalties if they do, so make sure to review the list below carefully.

We have redacted the list to show only those exclusions for Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Kentucky, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. Remember, doing a nationwide search is the only way to be certain that the individual you are screening is not prohibited from Federal program participation. If an individual has worked in or moved from another state, the individual’s exclusion status will only be visible by searching the database for the individual’s previous state of residence or by searching the nationwide database. To search the nationwide database, click HERE.

Health care providers should not rely only on these monthly publications of new exclusions, but should also verify that their employees and contractors are not excluded from a government healthcare program by checking the databases maintained by the Office of Inspector General and the System for Award Management upon hire and periodically thereafter.

If you have any questions or concerns about the exclusions, then feel free to contact us.

Please note that this alert is intended to be informational only, and is not intended to be nor should it be relied upon as legal adcice. Rolf Goffman Martin Lang LLP will not be responsible for any actions taken or arrangements structured based upon this alert. The receipt of this alert by an organization that is not a current client of Rolf Goffman Martion Lang LLP does not create an attorney-client relationship between the recipient and the law firm.

Ohio	Indiana	Michigan
Hassan A. Abdi Liban Abdi Clare Armstrong Zakiyyah H. Bey Nanci J. Cover Carly Michelle Diamond Amy Lynn Duncann Cheryl Durham Carol Edwards Jennifer M. Forte Melissa Marie Fraly Angela Marie French John A. Geralt Scinecia Hale Samone Jarrett Chatelle D. Jones Cynthia Klein Angela M. Miley John P. Moore III Joanna Ochieng Harold Persaud Malenda Prak Amanda Marie Shaulis Tanya Williams	Anthony Bitterling Austin D. Gough Michelle Rae Lester Michael Markiewicz Victoria Lynn McCartney David Shepherd Stewart Kahley Vergon-Mayotte	Muhammad K. Ahmed Janet Lynn Bastien Tiffany Carmell Walker

Pennsylvania	Kentucky	Florida
Cathi Jo Bittinger Michelle Canavan Tatia Dumas Laura Theresa Ellis Melkeisha Leanne Flagg Donnell Gales David Halperin Stephen Heffner Jr. Donique Suree Highsmith Lewis Levine Misti McCullen Bertha Osei-Bonsu Stephen Alan Patterson Elizabeth Ann Pearce David Wait John Watts	Brandon Bratcher Michael Howard Hardin Sarah B. Scearce Hardwick Willard Clayborne Howard Reiner Alfred Legaspi Joseph S. Morris Sharon A. Tevis Jennifer Lynn Allen Tipton	Sergei Berezin David Vaughn Bledsoe Karen Carlson Bledsoe Sheyla Diaz Tamara Esponda Robert Patrick Garcia Barbara Guerra Barbara Oldham Kennedy Natalya Krichevskaya David Lazarus Kevin Lunion Ruben Maranges Indira Martell Alexey Mesiatsev Linda Sue Peters Celso Cobos Ramirez Deborah Ramirez Ankur Roy Odette Sanchez Claudine N. Smith Quintella Cerilla Taylor Stephanie Tindall Lyudmila Ustakova Edwardo Williams

North Carolina	South Carolina	Virginia
Farid Ahmed Holly Parham Cranford Adrienne Alexis Creedmore Michelle Nicole Davis Sarah Gewanter Jessica Lee Gray Allecyn Cook Griffin Pamela Hopkins Cristi M. Jewell Yvette Francine McLean Elizabeth Blackwell Pace	Asley Del Sol Fernandez Ryan F. Finklea Eric Bernard Mitchell	Cassie Lee Davis