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Office of the Inspector General Federal Health Care Programs (FHCP) Kickbacks

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OIG February 2024 Enforcement Actions

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The following is a summary of selected federal Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) reports of fraud and abuse enforcement activity across the country. The enforcement actions reported...more

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OIG Issues Favorable Advisory Opinion Concluding Bonuses to Employed Physicians Are Not Kickbacks

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Earlier this month, OIG issued Advisory Opinion 23-07, a favorable opinion regarding an employer’s proposal to pay bonuses to its employed physicians based on net profits derived from certain procedures performed by the...more

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OIG Kickback Opinion: Referring Labs Providing Technical Component Services Implicate Anti-Kickback Statute

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This opinion addresses a proposed agreement (“Proposed Arrangement”) between a national anatomic pathology laboratory (“Requestor”) and laboratories owned in whole or in part by physicians who may refer (“Referring...more

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OIG Again Concludes That Online Health Care Provider Marketplace Does Not Violate Fraud and Abuse Laws

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In Advisory Opinion No. 23-04, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) analyzed certain proposed changes to the functionality of a health care technology company’s online...more

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U.S. Government Issues Special Fraud Alert on Telemedicine Companies

The U.S. Government is warning health care practitioners to be on the lookout for fraud in connection with companies that offer products and services using telemedicine. On July 20, 2022, the U.S. Department of Health...more

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Millennium Health to Pay $256 million in False Claims Act Settlement

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Millennium Health, one of the nation’s largest urine drug testing laboratories, has agreed to pay the government $256 million to resolve claims that it violated the Federal False Claims Act (“FCA”). The Settlement...more

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The “Other” Safe Harbor: OIG Warns Healthcare Providers and Vendors Against Information Blocking and Federal Anti-Kickback...

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For those of us who work in the privacy and security space this past week has been a whirlwind with focus on the ramifications of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decision invalidating the EU-U.S. Safe Harbor Agreement....more

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