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Compliance Compass: The Erlanger Complaint – A Cautionary Reminder About the Importance of FMV

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Although most health care lawyers and compliance officers who review and analyze physician compensation understand that fair market value (FMV) is important, the nuances around FMV are sometimes missed....more

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Corporate Practice of Medicine, Antikickback and Stark Analysis After the AAEM-PG and Envision Settlement

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The American Academy of Emergency Medicine Physician Group (AAEM-PG) recently settled a lawsuit in United States District Court for the Northern District of California against Envision Healthcare and Envision Physician...more

Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C.

Client Update – New OIG General Compliance Guidance Released

November 28, 2023 | Legal Update On November 10, 2023, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released its widely anticipated General Compliance Program Guidance (GCPG). The OIG had previously announced that it would...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Labs Take Note: In a New Opinion, OIG Reminds Us that Fair Market Value Payments Can Still Violate the Anti-Kickback Statute

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On September 25, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued Advisory Opinion 23-06, in which it declined to approve an anatomic pathology laboratory’s proposal to purchase...more

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Defensibility of a fair market value analysis

Fair market value (FMV) is a pinnacle issue with respect to healthcare regulatory compliance and compensation agreements. This article will analyze the issues related to an FMV defensibility analysis of compensation...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Fair Market Value Defensibility Analysis: Why is It Different from a Fair Market Value Opinion?

Fair market value is a pinnacle issue for compliance under the Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute. Compensation arrangements that are required to be representative of fair market value under Stark/AKS include employment,...more

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Top Five Issues Related to Physician-Hospital ASC Joint Ventures

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The past several years have seen resurging interest in ambulatory surgery center (ASC) transactions. As previously covered in Health Care Law Today, ASCs have made a comeback with involvement of multi-specialty groups. This...more

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Managing the Transition to Transformation: Old Dog, New Tricks: Fraud and Abuse in the Age of Payment Reform

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McDermott’s Managing the Transition to Transformation series is designed to help health systems and other health care industry leaders address the many challenges presented by the transformation in payment and care delivery...more

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Skeletons in the Closet? Beware of Potential Enforcement Actions

With Halloween looming, a discussion of skeletons that may be lurking in a health care provider’s closet is timely. Many of our previous posts, as well as the monthly Qui Tam Updates published by our Health Care Enforcement...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Health Law Pulse - August 2015

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The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) recently issued a favorable advisory opinion (Advisory Opinion) to a nonprofit health system (System) and a nonprofit psychiatric hospital (Center) regarding a proposal whereby the...more

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Increased OIG Scrutiny on Medical Directorships

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On June 9, 2015, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a Fraud Alert entitled, "Physician Compensation Arrangements May Result in Significant Liability." The Alert is an...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

OIG Fraud Alert: Physicians in the Cross Hairs

On June 9, 2015, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a Fraud Alert focused on physician relationships. The Alert cautions physicians who enter into compensation arrangements...more

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HHS Issues Fraud Alert on Medical Directorship Relationships - Hospitals and Physicians Need to Review Agreements to Prevent a...

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On June 9, 2015, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a Fraud Alert regarding recent settlements with 12 individual physicians who were party to questionable medical...more

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