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Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

OIG Issues a Favorable Advisory Opinion on Vendor’s Offer of Gift Cards to Physician Practices for Recommending the Vendor’s...

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) started 2024 with a flurry of activity by issuing four new Advisory Opinions on January 3, 2024. In one of these Advisory Opinions, the OIG approved a vendor’s referral program that...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

OIG Issues Unfavorable Advisory Opinion on Free Items to Patients Tied to Reimbursable Services

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

McDermott Will & Emery

Healthcare Regulatory Check-up Newsletter | July 2023 Recap

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

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

Advisory Opinion 22-19: OIG Warns That Proposed Drug Cost Subsidization Arrangement May Warrant Sanctions

On October 5, 2022, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) published Advisory Opinion 22-19 (Advisory Opinion), in which it determined that a proposed oncology drug discount arrangement could constitute grounds for the...more

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

Advisory Opinion 22-05: OIG Declines to Impose Sanctions Against Device Manufacturer’s Medicare Cost-Sharing Subsidy in Clinical...

On March 16, 2022, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) published Advisory Opinion 22-05 (Advisory Opinion) in which it declined to impose sanctions against a medical device manufacturer (Requestor) that proposes to pay...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

OIG Approves Online Retailer’s Discount Program

On January 19, 2022, the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) issued a favorable Advisory Opinion regarding an online retailer’s proposal to make its discount programs available to...more

King & Spalding

OIG Issues Favorable Advisory Opinion Regarding the Provision of Free Dental Services

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On August 3, 2021, OIG issued an advisory opinion, Advisory Opinion No. 21-10, allowing for a dentist to provide free routine and emergency dental services to indigent Medicaid beneficiaries who are residents of nursing...more

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The Lawyers' Lawyer Newsletter - Recent Developments in Risk Management - Halloween 2020

Firm Administration – Expense Reporting – Oversight – Discipline - Trick or Treat Editors' Note: Aside from a global pandemic, is there anything more bizarre and troubling than lawyers stealing seemingly paltry sums from...more

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

HHS Issues Favorable Advisory Opinion Permitting Community Health Center to Purchase Real Estate From an Excluded Individual

On September 6, 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued OIG Advisory Opinion No. 19-05 (Advisory Opinion) permitting a community health center (Requestor) to...more

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