Practitioner Elects to Inform Patients

9050.4.1 – Practitioner Elects to Inform Patients (Rev. 24, Issued: 02-12-16, Effective: 03-14-16, Implementation: 03-14-16) OIG will provide a sanctioned practitioner or other person an opportunity to elect to inform each of their patients of the sanction action. To elect this option, the sanctioned practitioner or other person must, within 30 calendar days of receiving OIG’s notice, inform both new patients and existing patients through written notice, based on a suggested (non-mandatory) model that OIG provide to the sanctioned individual, of the sanction and, in the case of exclusion, its effective date. Receipt of OIG’s notice is presumed to be five (5) days after the date of the notice, unless there is a reasonable showing to the contrary. Within this same period, the practitioner or other person must sign and return the certification that OIG will provide with the notice. NOTE: For the purpose of this section, the term “all existing patients” includes patients currently under active treatment with the practitioner or other person as well as all patients who the practitioner or other person has treated within the last 3 years. In addition, the practitioner or other person must notify all prospective patients orally at the time such person requests an appointment.