For your Business Name, we need the EXACT name of your business, as shown on the State Registration form received from the State in which you are registered to do business. Please enter correct spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and spacing of your company name. For TIN/EIN, we need the taxpayer identification number that you use when [...]

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Please go to www.sanctionscreeningnow.com and click on the orange Register button in the upper right corner. On the first screen, as the Type of Business, you should select “Vendor/Business” if you are a company, or “Vendor/Individual” if you an independent contractor working without a defined company name. Upon successful registration, you will receive an email [...]

There is a small, fixed annual cost for vendors that covers registration of your company, monthly sanction screening and validation for your employees, and notification to the healthcare institution(s) that you service that you are in compliance with the program. You are only required to pay this fee once per year, regardless of how many [...]

You have multiple options, including conducting the sanction screening yourself, using OIGCN, or using another third party administrator. Regardless of the option that you select, you will be required to notify each of your healthcare providers on a monthly basis that you are conducting sanction screening. The advantage of using OIGCN is that we will [...]

Excluded individuals are not allowed to receive federal money, unless a waiver is granted by the Office of Inspector General. Without a waiver, you will need to ensure that any excluded individuals do not receive federal funds. Our company can assist you with the management of any exclusions. You will need to involve your HR [...]

It is up to the hospital to determine what it will accept as “proof” of monthly screening for vendors who conduct screening themselves. If you work with OIGCN, we will submit proof to the hospital that you are conducting monthly screening.

Employees to be screened fall into two categories: 1. those that are directly involved in the claim/order process, that are using/receiving medical assistance money, and 2. those that “causing medical assistance money to flow” to the healthcare facilities that you service. This applies to employees at any of your locations. Again, if you need further [...]

The screening requirement is based on how your vendor organization “causes Medicaid money to flow” to the healthcare facility. Some vendors are providing products, like assistive devices for IEP students, and these vendors need to screen their entity names. Others are providing specialists (individuals) to the healthcare facility that provide services. In this case, both [...]

Vendors do not need to be submitting claims to be required to screen. As a contractor to a school or hospital, your vendor organization could be “causing the Medicaid money to flow” from the federal system to the school or hospital that has notified you. This means that your organization “adds value to a claim” [...]