News & Analysis as of

Enforcement Actions Anti-Kickback Statute Advisory Opinions

Venable LLP

OIG Reminds Us that Flat Fee Business Arrangements Aren’t Immune from AKS Scrutiny

Venable LLP on

On July 1, 2025, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued Advisory Opinion No. 25-08, concluding that a medical device manufacturer’s proposed payment to access a...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

OIG Issues Unfavorable Advisory Opinion: Provision of Free Services to Referral Sources Creates Kickback Risk

Key Points - - The Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) has issued Advisory Opinion No. 25-04 (AO 25-04), its first advisory opinion of the year addressing a proposed arrangement...more

Foley Hoag LLP - White Collar Law &...

Federal District Court Upholds HHS Advisory Opinion Blocking Fertility Assistance Program

A recent decision from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia continues to give significant deference to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) interpretation of the Anti-Kickback and...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

HHS-OIG Year in Review 2023

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) is tasked with providing objective oversight to protect the integrity and promote the efficiency of Medicare, Medicaid, and more than...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Healthcare Regulatory Check-up Newsletter | October 2023 Recap

McDermott Will & Schulte on

This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights significant regulatory activity for October 2023. We discuss several enforcement actions that involve violations of the False Claims Act (FCA) and the...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Healthcare Regulatory Check-up Newsletter | September 2023 Recap

McDermott Will & Schulte on

This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights regulatory activity for September 2023. We discuss several criminal and civil enforcement actions that involve violations of the False Claims Act (FCA), the...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Healthcare Regulatory Check-up Newsletter | July 2023 Recap

This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights significant regulatory activity for July 2023. We discuss several criminal and civil enforcement actions that involve violations of the False Claims Act...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

OIG 2022 Advisory Opinions: Year in Review

The Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) is responsible for detecting and preventing fraud, waste, and abuse in federal health care programs. The OIG has...more

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

Advisory Opinion 22-17: OIG Declines to Impose Sanctions on a Health System for Forgiveness of Credit Line Note Owed by Clinic

On September 6, 2022, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) published Advisory Opinion 22-17 (Advisory Opinion), in which it declined to impose sanctions against a regional 501(c)(3) not-for-profit health care system that...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up Newsletter | September 2022 Recap

This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights significant regulatory activity between August 21 and September 20, 2022, including a guilty plea from a telemedicine physician who wrote prescriptions for...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up Newsletter | January - April 2022

This special inaugural issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights noticeable enforcement activity, OIG regulatory developments, CMS regulatory developments and other key developments for healthcare...more

ArentFox Schiff

Physician Ownership in Medical Device Company Will Not Trigger Anti-Kickback Statute Enforcement Action, OIG Concludes in Advisory...

ArentFox Schiff on

Physician-owned companies that generate revenue from the sale of medical devices ordered by their physician owners have in recent years been the target of federal fraud and abuse enforcement actions. OIG Advisory Opinion...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

OIG Declines to Approve Lab’s Payment of Specimen Collection Fees to Hospitals

On April 28, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published Advisory Opinion 22-09, declining to approve a laboratory company’s proposal to pay hospitals a fair market...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Healthcare Law Update: September 2018

Holland & Knight LLP on

Regulation - CMS Contemplating Telemedicine Changes - The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published what it described as a "major proposed rule" that covers a number of topics that could have...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Healthcare Law Update: March 2017

Holland & Knight LLP on

Enforcement - OIG Issues Advisory Opinion Allowing Free or Reduced-Cost Lodging and Meals - On March 3, 2017, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued...more

15 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide