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Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Settlement Roundup: Heart-Valve Replacements, Federal Research Grants, and Clinical Laboratory Marketing

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced settlements involving alleged noncompliance with Medicare billing requirements for heart-valve replacement surgeries, false statements in federal funding research grants, and...more

McDermott Will & Emery

OIG Pathology Lab: Don't Pay for Services You Don't Need

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In September, the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued an unfavorable advisory opinion to a pathology laboratory concerning a proposed services arrangement with referring...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

Holland & Hart - Health Law Blog

What Healthcare Providers Need to Know About EKRA

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In October 2018, the President signed the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act, a portion of which is known as the “Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act of 2018” or “EKRA.” EKRA, aimed at the ongoing opioid crisis, is...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

OIG Releases Special Fraud Alert on Laboratory Payments to Physicians

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The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Health and Human Services recently issued a Special Fraud Alert regarding laboratory payments to referring physicians. The Special Fraud Alert reaffirms OIG’s...more

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OIG rejects management arrangement that carves out federal healthcare program patients

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The Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services recently posted an Advisory Opinion describing a proposed arrangement by a clinical laboratory. ...more

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