Office of Inspector General September 13, 2005 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

This document corrects the final regulations establishing the Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank (HIPDB), the national health care fraud and abuse data collection program for the reporting and disclosing of certain adverse actions taken against health care providers, suppliers and practitioners and for maintaining a data base of final adverse actions taken against health care providers, suppliers and practitioners. In the implementing HIPDB regulations published in the Federal Register on October 26, 1999 (64 FR 57740), an inadvertent error appeared in the regulations text concerning the definition of the term ``any other negative action or finding.'' As a result, we are correcting the definition of the term to assure the technical correctness of these regulations.