News & Analysis as of August 2, 2025

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Hiring & Firing refers to the process of recruiting, interviewing and offering employment and the process of evaluating performance and dismissing employees. Hiring & Firing is a highly regulated area and can create tremendous liability for employers who fail to properly adhere to acceptable employment practices. Some of the potential pitfalls in this area stem from discriminatory hiring practices, improper performance evaluations, and retaliatory firings. less -

‘I Really Wanted to Stay’: Amid Success, Regrets, OHRP’s Kaneshiro Hopes Agency Will Be Rebuilt

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 5/28/2025

When Jerry Menikoff retired at the end of 2022 after leading the HHS Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) for 14 years, he left behind an agency limping along with 20 employees, less than half of what it needed. For...more

OCR Loses Staff, Faces Move to New ‘Enforcement’ Office; Will HIPAA Focus, Independence Suffer?

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 4/15/2025

Today, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the likes of the Office of Inspector General and Office of General Counsel, one of just a dozen or so agencies reporting directly to the secretary....more

Report on Research Compliance Volume 20, Number 1. With Greater Than Half Its Positions Vacant, OHRP Employing More Technology,...

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 12/28/2022

The HHS Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) is currently operating with a 62% vacancy rate among staff, as it has not filled open positions, agency officials say. OHRP has a staff of 20, but there are an additional...more

OIG's List of Excluded Individuals/Entities – What Employers Need to Know

Baker Donelson on 4/22/2019

OIG maintains a list of all currently excluded individuals and entities called the "List of Excluded Individuals/Entities," or LEIE. Covered entities that hire – or continue to employ or work with – an individual or entity on...more

Employing Excluded Individuals a Continuing Risk to Providers

Jackson Walker on 6/16/2015

Since June 1st, two different skilled nursing facilities in Texas have settled cases with the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) involving the employment of individuals...more

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