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
12/1/2020
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OIG recently issued a report in April 2018 titled, “CMS Paid Practitioners for Telehealth Services That Did Not Meet Medicare Requirements,” in which it claims to have found that CMS improperly paid practitioners in 31 of 100...more
On December 29, 2016, CMS and OIG issued a Notice of Amended Waivers of Certain Fraud and Abuse Laws in Connection with the Next Generation ACO Model (the 2016 Notice). The 2016 Notice does not change or limit arrangements...more