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This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights regulatory activity for July 2024. We discuss several US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agency actions, including a final rule on provider...more
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently issued a new favorable advisory opinion regarding patient assistance programs (PAP) for 12 specific disease funds. PAPs help patients pay high cost-sharing obligations for...more
On Tuesday, February 27, the next installment of Rivkin Radler’s Healthcare Compliance Lunch & Learn series, will be presented by Rivkin Radler Partners, Geoffrey Kaiser and Benjamin Malerba. The program, “Prohibitions on...more
On December 28, 2023, the Office of Inspector General (the “OIG”) issued a favorable Advisory Opinion (No. 23-15) (the “Opinion”) to a consulting vendor (the “Requestor”) that wanted to provide up to $75 in gift cards to...more
On January 3, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) posted Advisory Opinion 23-15, approving a physician practice consultant’s proposal to offer gift cards to its customers when...more
This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights significant regulatory activity for October 2023. We discuss several enforcement actions that involve violations of the False Claims Act (FCA) and the...more
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently issued an advisory opinion that explored the limits of a relatively new safe harbor to the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) that aims...more
On October 13, 2023, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (the OIG) released an advisory opinion regarding a multi-specialty physician practice's (the Practice) proposed plan to pay bonuses...more
This opinion addresses a proposed arrangement (“Proposed Arrangement”) by the manufacturer of cochlear implants (“Requestor”), where the Requestor would provide certain patients who receive one of their implants with a free...more
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) rejected a manufacturer’s proposal to provide free hearing aids to certain patients if they receive one of the...more
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently issued an advisory opinion highlighting two important—if easy to overlook—areas that health care companies and providers should remain...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) recently considered the question whether an employed physician can be paid bonus compensation relating to procedures performed by the...more
In September, the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued an unfavorable advisory opinion to a pathology laboratory concerning a proposed services arrangement with referring...more
On October 13, 2023, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) published Advisory Opinion 23-07 (Advisory Opinion), in which the OIG issued a favorable opinion regarding a physician group employer’s proposal to pay bonuses to its...more
Late last week, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (“OIG”) posted Advisory Opinion No. 23-07 affirming the broad protection available for compensation to employed physicians under the...more
On August 18, 2023, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) published Advisory Opinion 23-05 (Advisory Opinion), in which the OIG warned that it would likely issue sanctions under the Federal anti-kickback statute (AKS) if a...more
This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights significant regulatory activity for July 2023. We discuss several criminal and civil enforcement actions that involve violations of the False Claims Act...more
On August 15, 2023, the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) issued a negative Advisory Opinion regarding a turnkey physician-owned entity (Newco) operated by an existing provider...more
In a rarely seen “unfavorable” advisory opinion, the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) recently warned that an entity’s (“Requestor”) proposal to assist surgeons in...more
In Advisory Opinion No. 23-04, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) analyzed certain proposed changes to the functionality of a health care technology company’s online...more
Does your practice pay to advertise in online directories? Or do you contract with a website to allow patients to book appointments or look for services? If the answer to these questions is “yes,” you may be interested in a...more
On July 11, 2023, OIG posted Advisory Opinion 23-04 regarding the use of an online healthcare directory for Federal healthcare program beneficiaries to find and book appointments with medical providers. Requestor sought OIG’s...more
The Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) is responsible for detecting and preventing fraud, waste, and abuse in federal health care programs. The OIG has...more
The US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently issued Advisory Opinion (AO) 23-03, analyzing a proposed arrangement in which a company that manufactures an at-home colon cancer...more
On March 29, 2023, OIG posted Advisory Opinion No. 23-03 regarding a laboratory’s proposed arrangement to provide a prepaid card of up to $75 to encourage individuals to return the sample collection kit associated with the...more