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FMV for Provider Contracts: Regulatory Standards

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As a general rule, healthcare employers are required to pay employed physicians and other contracted providers fair market value (FMV) for their services, but many employers do not understand relevant regulatory standards. ...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Compliance Compass: The Erlanger Complaint – A Cautionary Reminder About the Importance of FMV

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Although most health care lawyers and compliance officers who review and analyze physician compensation understand that fair market value (FMV) is important, the nuances around FMV are sometimes missed....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Increased Scrutiny into Agents & Brokers in the Medicare Advantage Space

Most Medicare Advantage (“MA”) beneficiaries rely on agents and brokers to help them navigate the complex process of selecting a health plan that will meet their needs. In exchange, brokers and agents received certain fixed...more

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“Let’s Talk Compliance”: Hot Topics in Compliance

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Editor’s Note: PYA and Foley & Lardner hosted the 6th Annual “Let’s Talk Compliance” two-day Virtual Conference on January 18 and 19, 2024. Panelists included Foley & Lardner attorneys and PYA experts. The event was hosted by...more

Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C.

Client Update – New OIG General Compliance Guidance Released

November 28, 2023 | Legal Update On November 10, 2023, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released its widely anticipated General Compliance Program Guidance (GCPG). The OIG had previously announced that it would...more

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OIG Reaffirms Its Concern About “Carving Out” Federal Health Care Program Business

Last month, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reaffirmed its longstanding position that an arrangement that “carves out” Federal health care program (FHCP) business is...more

Harris Beach PLLC

OIG Kickback Opinion: Referring Labs Providing Technical Component Services Implicate Anti-Kickback Statute

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This opinion addresses a proposed agreement (“Proposed Arrangement”) between a national anatomic pathology laboratory (“Requestor”) and laboratories owned in whole or in part by physicians who may refer (“Referring...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Labs Take Note: In a New Opinion, OIG Reminds Us that Fair Market Value Payments Can Still Violate the Anti-Kickback Statute

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On September 25, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued Advisory Opinion 23-06, in which it declined to approve an anatomic pathology laboratory’s proposal to purchase...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Fair Market Value Defensibility Analysis: Why is It Different from a Fair Market Value Opinion?

Fair market value is a pinnacle issue for compliance under the Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute. Compensation arrangements that are required to be representative of fair market value under Stark/AKS include employment,...more

McDermott Will & Emery

The Tale of Two CE Programs: OIG Compares Healthcare Provider and Third-Party Continuing Education in Recent Advisory Opinion

The Office of Inspector General of the US Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) issued Advisory Opinion 22-14 (AO 22-14) on June 29, 2022, concerning continuing education (CE) programs to be offered by an...more

Troutman Pepper

OIG: Continuing Education Programs Have Independent Value Under AKS

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In the wake of the global pandemic, which forced manufacturers, trade organizations, and all other players in the health care industry to rethink how to provide medical education and communication on new product offerings to...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Sponsoring Continuing Education Programs—OIG Weighs in with Advisory Opinion 22-14

On June 29, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published Advisory Opinion 22-14, approving in part, and denying in part, a request from an ophthalmology practice...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

OIG Declines to Approve Lab’s Payment of Specimen Collection Fees to Hospitals

On April 28, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published Advisory Opinion 22-09, declining to approve a laboratory company’s proposal to pay hospitals a fair market...more

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Arent Fox's Stark & Anti-Kickback Statute Final Rules Analysis

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Click the link below for our complete analysis of recent updates to the Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute and their impact on health care providers. ...more

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The Regulatory Sprint is Over – What’s at the Finish Line Under the New Stark and AKS Final Rules?

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) completed its “Regulatory Sprint” by finalizing changes to regulations pertaining to two federal fraud and abuse laws. On December 2, 2020, the Centers for Medicare &...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Health Care

New Stark Regulations Further Clarify Definitions of Fair Market Value and General Market Value

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), on November 20, 2020, released final rules for the federal physician self-referral law (Stark) and the anti-kickback statute (AKS). The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...more

King & Spalding

Major Changes Finalized to Stark Rules, Anti-Kickback Statute Safe Harbors and the Beneficiary Inducements CMP

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CMS and OIG released highly anticipated final changes to the rules implementing the Stark Law, the safe harbors issued under the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) and the beneficiary inducements provision in the civil monetary...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Special Fraud Alert: Speaker Programs – If It's Too Good to Be True, It Probably Is

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On November 16, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) took a shot across the bow of the healthcare industry when it published a Special Fraud Alert highlighting some of the fraud and...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

OIG Takes Aim at Speaker Programs in Special Fraud Alert

On November 16, 2020, the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) issued a Special Fraud Alert addressing the fraud and abuse risks of speaker programs that are commonplace in the...more

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OIG Releases Policy Statement Extending HHS Blanket Waiver Protection to Certain Federal Anti-Kickback Statute Violations During...

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On April 3, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issued a policy statement of enforcement discretion (the “Policy Statement”) regarding sanctions under the Federal...more

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CMS’ Proposed Stark Rule Change and Guidance on “The Big Three”: Fair Market Value, Commercial Reasonableness, and Taking Into...

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As part of a larger “Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) recently issued a proposed rule aimed at modernizing and...more

Jones Day

CMS Proposes Changes to Arrangement Valuation Terms Under the Federal Stark Law

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The Situation: There has been longstanding uncertainty in the health care industry related to interpreting certain compensation valuation terms used throughout the statutory and regulatory exceptions to the federal physician...more

Epstein Becker & Green

HHS’s Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care – Part 3: CMS Proposes Expansive Set of Changes to Stark Regulations

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This Client Alert serves as the third in a three-part series in which we describe and analyze the rules proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) as part...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care: CMS/AKS and OIG Stark Proposed Amendments

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HHS has long admitted that the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) and the Stark law have not evolved to keep pace with the transition to value based care. In June of 2018, HHS issued an RFI seeking additional information and HHS...more

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HHS Publishes Proposed Stark and AKS Updates

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On October 9, 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ("CMS") and Office of Inspector General ("OIG"), respectively, published proposed rules updating the long-standing physician...more

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