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Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program FY 2021 Report
Beyond Hospice: The OIG Renews Its Scrutiny of Home Health Agencies
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Rob DeConti on the Latest Guidance and Insights from the OIG at HHS
In this podcast Rob DeConti, Assistant Inspector General for Legal Affairs within the office of counsel to the Inspector General at HHS, was good enough to share a tremendous amount of insight into what the OIG is seeing,...more
Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 28 (August 3, 2020) - The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) has given the green light to a plan by a charitable organization to “purchase or receive donations of unpaid medical...more
On July 24, 2020, OIG issued an Advisory Opinion (AO), AO 20-04, regarding whether an arrangement where a charitable organization purchases or receives donations of unpaid medical debt from health care providers, and then...more
On October 22, 2019, Skadden hosted our Ninth Annual Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Enforcement and Litigation Seminar in New York, which focused on U.S. enforcement issues companies face throughout the industry. The key...more
On January 9, in its first Advisory Opinion of 2019 (OIG Advisory Opinion 19-01), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General (OIG), issued a favorable opinion regarding an arrangement...more
On January 14, 2019, the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) published a favorable Advisory Opinion allowing a charitable pediatric clinic (Clinic) to routinely waive cost-sharing amounts for patients...more
2017 was slightly above average for new corporate integrity agreements (CIAs), with 46 entered into by the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) and companies and individuals...more
On Jan. 4, 2018, the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued an open letter containing guidance regarding the provision of certain free drugs to federal healthcare program beneficiaries. Specifically, the OIG stated that...more
For the first time in history, OIG rescinded an advisory opinion that had previously protected a patient assistance charity from anti-kickback statute (AKS) liability. In its letter to the charity, OIG stated that it based...more
On November 28, 2017, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) rescinded advisory opinion 06-04, in which it had previously determined that a charity’s (Requestor) proposal to provide assistance to financially needy Medicare...more
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (the OIG), on November 28, 2017, issued a Rescission Letter terminating Advisory Opinion Number 06-04 (Advisory Opinion 06-04). In Advisory Opinion...more
On November 13, 2015, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued Advisory Opinion 15-14. The Arrangement at issue is a charitable program designed to assist financially needy...more
On December 28, 2015, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) approved another patient assistance program in Advisory Opinion 15-16. The OIG analyzed contributions to a private charitable organization under the anti-kickback...more
On December 28, 2015, the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued OIG Advisory Opinion 15-17, approving a charity’s proposal to unveil a new patient assistance program dedicated to...more
On November 20, 2015, OIG issued a favorable advisory opinion, Advisory Opinion No. 15-14, regarding a charitable organization’s arrangement to pay for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) services for patients afflicted with a...more
On May 28, 2015, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued an advisory opinion approving a charitable organization’s proposal to provide financial assistance to individuals with...more
On January 5, 2015, the OIG posted a favorable advisory opinion, OIG Advisory Opinion 14-11, regarding a 501(c)(3) charitable foundation’s (Foundation) proposal to establish a patient assistance program that would provide...more
Introduction - The OIG has released a Supplemental Special Advisory Bulletin that “reiterates and amplifies” previous OIG Special Advisory Bulletin guidance from 2005. Pharmaceutical manufacturers and Patient...more
On May 21, 2014, the United States Department of Health & Human Services Office of Inspector General (“HHS OIG”) issued a fifteen page Supplemental Special Advisory Bulletin: Independent Charity Patient Assistance Programs...more