The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) is tasked with providing objective oversight to protect the integrity and promote the efficiency of Medicare, Medicaid, and more than 100 other federal healthcare programs, as well as the health and welfare of the people they serve.
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Heather Pearson
Heather Pearson provides healthcare regulatory and transactional counsel as it relates to compliance, operational matters, and mergers and acquisitions. Heather draws on her experience as a public health analyst at RTI International, focusing on program evaluation and health system financing for CMS, and her judicial clerkships in the Minnesota Court of Appeals and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana. During law school, she summered at the Center for Health Law & Policy Innovation at Harvard Law School and in the Office of the Chief Counsel at the FDA.
HHS-OIG Year In Review 2022

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) continues to offer valuable insights to the healthcare industry as to how best to approach increasingly complex healthcare fraud and abuse issues. Bass, Berry & Sims is pleased to share this HHS-OIG Year In Review (HHS-OIG YIR) that highlights key guidance OIG issued in 2022, as well as other items of import involving the agency.Continue Reading HHS-OIG Year In Review 2022