title: Fighting for fairness.
abstract: When the Texas Health and Human Services Commission Office of Inspector General (OIG) adopted "program integrity" rules physicians couldn't live with, the Texas Medical Association took action to protect physicians. The association fought during this year's legislative session to improve due process in OIG fraud investigations and secured legislation that lends greater transparency to the agency's investigative and payment hold processes.
authors.forename: Crystal
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zuzek
mesh_terms: D005607:Fraud / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D010820:Physicians / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D012955:Societies, Medical; D013781:Texas