Exclusion Screening and Related Requirements. Provider shall not employ or contract with, and shall ensure that its Downstream Entities do not employ or contract with, individuals or entities that are excluded under the HHS Office of Inspector General’s List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (“OIG List”) or otherwise excluded from participation in Medicare or other Federal health care programs, or are debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, declared ineligible, or voluntarily excluded by any Federal department or agency (“Excluded Individuals”). Provider shall, and shall cause its Downstream Entities to: (a) review the OIG List and the U.S. General Services Administration’s Excluded Parties List System prior to the initial hiring of any employee or the engagement of any Downstream Entity to furnish services to Company’s Medicare Program, and monthly thereafter, to ensure compliance with this paragraph; (b) provide documentation, upon written request by Company, of such Exclusion Screening and related requirements; (c) promptly notify Company upon discovering that it, or any of its employees or Downstream Entities, has furnished Medicare program related services to Company under the Agreement as or through an Excluded Individual or that a person or entity furnishing Services under the Agreement has been convicted of a criminal felony that could serve as the basis of Federal health care program exclusion; and (d) promptly remove an Excluded Individual from any work related, directly or indirectly, to Services furnished under the Agreement and use commercially reasonable efforts to take other appropriate corrective action reasonably requested by Company based on the above notification.
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Samples: Aetna Better Health of Newjersey Medicaid Facility Services Agreement, Louisiana Ancillary Services Agreement, Services Agreement
