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OIG Approves Loyalty Rewards Program in Supermarket Pharmacies

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In its last Advisory Opinion of 2019 (19-06), the OIG approved a proposed arrangement involving a retailer rewards program through which out-of-pocket costs on in-store pharmacy purchases would qualify customers for future...more

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OIG Advisory Opinion 18-01: Excluded Individual May Serve as Marketing Liaison to LTC Pharmacies

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In OIG Advisory Opinion 18-01, published February 27, 2018, the OIG concluded a proposed employment arrangement between an excluded individual and a for-profit company selling discounted emergency medications to long term...more

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Pharmacy Chain's Benefit Program Gets OIG Approval in Advisory Opinion 17-05

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The OIG approved a retail pharmacy chain's proposal to expand its benefit program, which allows participating federal health care program beneficiaries to receive discounts and other benefits when purchasing certain products...more

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OIG issues Advisory Opinion on a Retail Pharmacy’s Paid Membership Program Which Includes Federal Health Care Program...

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On September 7, 2017, the OIG posted an advisory opinion regarding a retail pharmacy chain’s proposal to extend to federal health care program beneficiaries the option to participate in a paid membership program that includes...more

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Tennessee Rule Change: Prohibition on Prescription Transfer Incentives

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Tennessee pharmacies can no longer offer patients financial rewards in exchange for the transfer of the patient's prescriptions. Effective February 20, 2017, the Tennessee Board of Pharmacy enacted a new rule providing that...more

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OIG Rings in the New Year With New Anti-Kickback Statute Safe Harbors

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Just in time for the New Year, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued final regulations (Final Regulations) that revised two existing Anti-Kickback Statute safe...more

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New Anti-Kickback Safe Harbors

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On December 7, 2016, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Inspector General (OIG), issued a final rule creating additional “safe harbors” for the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute (42 USC § 1320a-7b(b) et...more

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Pharmacy Qui Tam Based On U&C Price Billing Survives Motion to Dismiss

Once again, a pharmacy employee has filed a qui tam involving a drug discount program, alleging that the failure of the pharmacy to use the discounted pricing as the “usual and customary” price in Medicaid and Medicare Part D...more

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