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Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Client Alert: 2024 Holiday Gift-Giving Risks and Compliance Concerns for Health Care Providers

As we approach the Holiday Season, we all know that this is the time of year when gifts are exchanged. However, for health care providers, it can be a season of risk. Gifts to referral sources can cause unintended regulatory...more

Lathrop GPM

$43 Million False Claims Act Verdict in Minnesota Illustrates Ongoing Anti-kickback Statute Risks

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On February 27, a Minnesota federal court jury ruled in the favor of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in a False Claims Act (FCA) case based on allegations of Anti-kickback Statute (AKS) violations. The focus of the case...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Health Care

New OIG Guidance Permits Federally Qualified Health Centers to Offer Remote Patient Monitoring, Big-Box Store Gift Cards, and...

Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) deliver care to some of the nation's most vulnerable individuals and families, including federal Medicare and Medicaid health care program beneficiaries. As safety net providers,...more

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx

Healthcare Providers: Please Be Wary of Accepting Those Gifts!

There has been a longstanding and regrettable practice in the healthcare industry of pharmaceutical and medical device companies giving physicians gifts as illegal inducements. Concerned about this continued trend, the U.S....more

Buchalter

OIG Finalizes New and Expanded Anti-Kickback Safe Harbors, Issues Guidance Regarding Nominal Gifts

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In an uncertain health care environment following the presidential election, the Department of Health & Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) finalized a new rule expanding existing safe harbors to the federal...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Beware of Nurses Bearing Gifts

Alisia and David blew the whistle on their former employer, Nurses’ Registry & Home Health, for sending gift baskets and ticket events to doctors who referred patients to the home health operation. Their qui tam suit alleged...more

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