Healthcare providers can take four steps to avoid allegations of fraud against their organizations, said leaders in the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services at the July 16 Regional Health Care Fraud Prevention Summit in Miami. Hiding the problem won't work--and only provides a breeding ground for whistleblowers. So the Inspector General's office has set up a self-disclosure protocol to encourage providers that identified problems to come forward and work with us to get the problems resolved equitably and quickly. CMS also is developing a self-disclosure program because it also believes that we should be partnering and identifying these problems promptly and resolving them equitably. FierceHealthFinance