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[Podcast] Patient Assistance Programs: Enforcement Trends and Regulatory Challenges

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On this Ropes & Gray podcast, health care partner Michael Lampert and counsel Sam Perrone, and litigation & enforcement partner Andrew O’Connor, rejoin to discuss patient assistance programs, recent enforcement actions, and...more

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OIG Okays Assistance Arrangement Offered to Drug Patients in Advisory Opinion 20-02

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In Advisory Opinion 20-02, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) approved certain lodging and travel assistance offered by a pharmaceutical manufacturer to patients being administered a drug manufactured by the pharmaceutical...more

Epstein Becker & Green

OIG Permits Manufacturer of Personalized Medicine Drug to Cover Patients’ Travel, Lodging, and Other Expenses

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On January 21, 2020, the Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“OIG”) published Advisory Opinion 20-02, approving an arrangement under which a pharmaceutical manufacturer provides...more

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OIG Greenlights Digital Health Program Offering Free Smartphones to Patients

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Last week, the federal HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) gave the greenlight to allow a virtual care company and pharmaceutical manufacturer to loan patients free smartphones, so the patients (which include Medicare...more

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OIG Advisory Opinion Allows Smartphone Loan for Needy Patients Taking Digital Drug

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Last week, the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) issued a favorable Advisory Opinion regarding a proposal by a pharmaceutical manufacturer (Manufacturer) to loan a...more

King & Spalding

OIG Issues Advisory Opinion Giving the Green Light to a Pharmaceutical Manufacturer’s Plan to Provide Limited Functionality...

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On January 24, 2019, OIG issued Advisory Opinion No. 19-02, analyzing a proposed arrangement in which a pharmaceutical manufacturer would loan smartphones to patients who meet certain poverty level requirements in order to...more

Holland & Knight LLP

OIG Approves Pharmaceutical Manufacturer’s Loaning of Smartphones to Support Digital Medicine (DM)

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On Jan. 29, 2019, the Office of Inspector General (OIG), in Advisory Opinion 19-2, issued its first opinion on the new "promotes access to care" exception to the beneficiary inducement Civil Monetary Penalties (CMP) law and...more

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OIG Approves Manufacturer Loaning Smartphones as Appropriate Patient Assistance to Support Digital Medicine

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On January 29, the Health and Human Service Office of Inspector General (OIG) released new guidance that sheds further light on the types of patient assistance that may be provided under the “Promotes Access to Care”...more

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HHS OIG Issues Supplemental Special Advisory Bulletin on Patient Assistance Programs

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On May 21, 2014, the United States Department of Health & Human Services Office of Inspector General (“HHS OIG”) issued a fifteen page Supplemental Special Advisory Bulletin: Independent Charity Patient Assistance Programs...more

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