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OIG Sheds Light on Kickback Implications of Online Healthcare Directories
Recent advisory opinion offers insight on how healthcare providers may want to structure arrangements involving online directories.
Compliance Alert: OIG Sounds the Alarm on Medicare Overpayments for Physician Services Provided to Inpatients
According to a recent report, Medicare overpaid for such services over a two-year period between 2019 and 2020.
New OIG Advisory Opinion Repeats Warning that Free Labeling Services Can Be Kickbacks
OIG says a laboratory's proposal to offer dialysis clinics free labeling services would likely violate the Anti-Kickback Statute
Labs Can Take Advantage of Transportation Anti-Kickback Safe Harbor
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OIG Report Highlights Aggressive Enforcement
From - National Intelligence Report
The OIG's latest semiannual report to Congress as usual touts its successes with oversight and enforcement and provides a guide to…
2017 OIG Work Plan Holds Few Surprises for Labs
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OIG Releases 2017 Work Plan
From - National Intelligence Report
There are few surprises in the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General's 2017 Work Plan. The OIG's annual Work Plan provides…
OIG Report Details Medicare Payments for Top Lab Tests
From - National Intelligence Report
Medicare Part B paid $7 billion for lab tests in 2015, the same amount it shelled out in 2014. But 2015 Medicare payments for the top 25…
OIG Highlights Largest Self-Disclosure Protocol Settlement
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OIG Celebrates 40 Years of Fraud Fighting
From - National Intelligence Report
Oct. 15, 2016 marks 40 years since the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) was launched in…
OIG Mid-Year Work Plan Update Adds PAMA-Focused Lab Item
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Lab Sector Continues to Actively Fight Potential Medicare Co-Payment Collections
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