2008 Advisory Opinion List

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2008

10-02-2008
Advisory Opinion 08-14 (PDF)
(concerning a substance abuse treatment center’s use of motivational incentives to reward a patient’s achievement of certain treatment-related goals)
Advisory Opinion 08-13 (PDF)
(concerning the use of a “preferred hospital” network as part of a Medicare Supplemental Health Insurance (“Medigap”) policy)
09-26-2008
Advisory Opinion 08-12 (PDF)
(concerning a proposed arrangement under which a newly formed legal entity would provide purely administrative insurance preauthorization processing and submission services for various radiology and imaging centers)
09-24-2008
Advisory Opinion 08-11 (PDF)
(concerning the waiving of cost-sharing obligations for protocol-required clinical services and oxygen therapy provided to Medicare beneficiaries who participate in the Long-term Oxygen Treatment Trial sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
09-04-2008
Notice of Modification of OIG Advisory Opinion No. 04-15 (PDF)
(concerning Advisory Opinion No. 04-15 (PDF), which was issued on 11/05/04, regarding proposed modifications to the nonprofit, charitable organization’s existing program to provide grants to financially-needy patients suffering from specific chronic or life-threatening diseases to defray the costs of prescription drug therapies)
08-26-2008
Advisory Opinion 08-10 (PDF)
(concerning a proposal for a physician practice group to provide space, equipment and personnel to other physician practice groups through block leases)
08-07-2008
Advisory Opinion 08-09 (PDF)
(concerning an arrangement under which a medical center has agreed to share with groups of orthopedic surgeons and a group of neurosurgeons a percentage of the medical center’s cost savings arising from the surgeons’ implementation of a number of cost reduction measures in spine fusion surgical procedures)
07-25-2008
Advisory Opinion 08-08 (PDF)
(concerning an investment in an ambulatory surgery center by a group of surgeons and a health care corporation that owns hospitals)
07-07-2008
Advisory Opinion 08-07 (PDF)
(concerning a proposal for a health care system to provide $10 gift cards to patients whose service expectations were not met)
05-09-2008
Advisory Opinion 08-06 (PDF)
(concerning a laboratory's proposal to provide services consisting of the labeling of test tubes and specimen collection containers at no cost to dialysis facilities)
02-22-2008
Advisory Opinion 08-05 (PDF)
(concerning a pharmaceutical company's proposal to place in certain physicians' offices electronic kiosks that offer patients free disease state screening questionnaires)
02-12-2008
Advisory Opinion 08-04 (PDF)
(concerning a proposal to offer a free trial prescription program to hemophilia A patients who are Federal health care program beneficiaries)
02-08-2008
Advisory Opinion 08-03 (PDF)
(concerning a proposed arrangement by which a health care system would provide prompt pay discounts to Federal health care program beneficiaries and other insured patients in connection with both inpatient and outpatient care)
02-05-2008
Advisory Opinion 08-02 (PDF)
(concerning a marketing and research company’s proposal to encourage physicians and other health care professionals to complete online surveys by offering them the opportunity to designate a public charity to which the company or one of its clients would make a monetary charitable contribution)
02-01-2008
Advisory Opinion 08-01 (PDF)
(concerning a non-profit corporation’s program that arranges for pharmaceutical manufacturer patient assistance programs to provide donated drugs to free clinics and Federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) for use by financially-needy patients who do not have any form of outpatient prescription drug insurance coverage)

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