The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) released an advisory opinion (No. 15-04) today that states a proposed arrangement to provide free laboratory tests for certain patients of associated physician practices could implicate the federal anti-kickback law. An unnamed …
OIG Approves Subsidiaries’ Participation in Novel Ascension Health Alliance GPO
March 16, 2012 Leave a Comment
Yesterday, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) published its first Advisory Opinion of 2012. Advisory Opinion 12-01 sanctioned a novel group purchasing organization (GPO) arrangement. The proposed arrangement was not merely hypothetical. Today, Ascension Health …