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OIG Approves Consultant’s Provision of Gift Cards to Physician Practices

The US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) published favorable Advisory Opinion No. 23-15 on January 3, which concluded that a consultant’s proposal to provide gift cards to existing...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Gift Card Giveaway Does Not Violate Anti-Kickback Statute, HHS Says

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The plan of a healthcare consulting firm (the “Firm”) to give gift cards to physicians in exchange for referrals to new customers does not violate the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute (the “AKS”), according to an Advisory...more

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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

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Physicians Face Increased Anti-Kickback Enforcement Focus

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It appears that the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) now has physicians squarely in the crosshairs of one of its most powerful enforcement tools: the Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”). The AKS is a criminal statute with...more

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OIG Calls PODs "Inherently Suspect"

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Making its most strongly worded statement to date, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a Special Fraud Alert on Physician-Owned Entities on March 26, 2013, calling...more

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