Pinnacle Point Behavioral Health System d/b/a The Pointe Outpatient Behavioral Health Services
Outcome
The Pointe Outpatient Behavioral Health Services settled for $74,943.68 after self-reporting under its Corporate Integrity Agreement that it employed an individual it knew or should have known was excluded from federal healthcare programs.
Details
The Pointe Outpatient Behavioral Health Services (Fordyce, AR) — Employing Excluded Individual
Outcome: Settled for $74,943.68 after self-reporting under its Corporate Integrity Agreement that it employed an individual it knew or should have known was excluded from federal healthcare programs.
Pinnacle Point Behavioral Health System, doing business as The Pointe Outpatient Behavioral Health Services in Fordyce, Arkansas, employed an individual who was excluded from participation in federal healthcare programs. The facility self-reported this conduct to OIG under its existing Corporate Integrity Agreement — a prior compliance obligation that required affirmative monitoring and disclosure.
The disclosure under an existing CIA is significant: it demonstrates that even facilities already subject to enhanced compliance oversight can fail to prevent excluded-individual violations when their screening processes are inadequate. The "knew or should have known" standard applied by OIG means the facility cannot claim ignorance as a defense if the exclusion was publicly listed on the LEIE.
The settlement of $74,943.68 was recorded July 31, 2025.
How Crucible Prevents This
Crucible's excluded-individual screening enforcement hooks directly address this violation; the fact that the facility already had a Corporate Integrity Agreement and still employed an excluded individual shows that manual CIA compliance monitoring without automated LEIE checks fails to prevent this violation.
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