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2007

01-14-2008

Advisory Opinion 07-22 (PDF)
(concerning an arrangement in which a hospital has agreed to share with a group of anesthesiologists a percentage of the hospital’s cost savings arising from the anesthesiologists’ implementation of a number of cost reduction measures related to anesthesia services provided during cardiac surgical procedures)

Advisory Opinion 07-21 (PDF)
(concerning an arrangement in which a hospital has agreed to share with a group of cardiac surgeons a percentage of the hospital’s cost savings arising from the surgeons’ implementation of a number of cost reduction measures in certain surgical procedures)

01-03-2008

Advisory Opinion 07-20 (PDF)
(concerning an investment by a physician in an imaging center in a medically underserved area devastated by Hurricane Katrina)

Advisory Opinion 07-19 (PDF)
(concerning an arrangement whereby a radiology group practice prepares written reports of its interpretations of radiology tests for a critical access hospital without charge to the hospital)

Advisory Opinion 07-18 (PDF)
(concerning the management by a health care industry consultancy of a charitable organization’s arrangements to subsidize patient cost-sharing and premium obligations)

12-26-2007

Advisory Opinion 07-17 (PDF)
(concerning a proposal by an excluded individual to license an invention to a new company)

12-13-2007

Advisory Opinion 07-16 (PDF)
(concerning a home health agency’s practice of providing prospective orthopedic patients with free educational videos containing instructions for postoperative home-based convalescence)

12-10-2007

Advisory Opinion 07-15 (PDF)
(concerning the use of a “preferred hospital” network as part of a Medicare Supplemental Health Insurance (“Medigap”) policy)

10-19-2007

Advisory Opinion 07-14 (PDF)
(concerning a county's exclusive contracts for emergency ambulance services, which set out how private ambulance companies should absorb the costs of transporting uninsured arrestees and reimburse the county for the costs of providing certain administrative and emergency dispatch services)

Advisory Opinion 07-13 (PDF)
(concerning the addition of optometrists as owners of three single-specialty ophthalmology ambulatory surgical centers)

10-17-2007

Advisory Opinion 07-12 (PDF)
(concerning two proposals to accept low or no-cost bids for the provision of therapy services at state-operated veterans’ homes)

10-03-2007

Advisory Opinion 07-11 (PDF)
(concerning a nonprofit, tax-exempt, charitable organization’s proposal to establish a foundation to provide financially needy cancer patients with grants to defray their out-of-pocket treatment costs)

09-27-2007

Advisory Opinion 07-10 (PDF)
(concerning the physicians’ on-call coverage and uncompensated inpatient care arrangement employed by a medical center)

08-28-2007

Advisory Opinion 07-09 (PDF)
(concerning a reward program under which certain consumers receive an annual reward based on the amount spent on purchases, including purchases of items covered by Federal health care programs)

07-30-2007

Advisory Opinion 07-08 (PDF)
(concerning a durable medical equipment supplier’s proposed arrangement to provide patients with a free in-home congestive heart failure assessment)

Advisory Opinion 07-07 (PDF)
(concerning a cash donation to a senior residence program from a charitable foundation which shares ties with the program and with a local health system)

Advisory Opinion 07-06 (PDF)
(concerning the management by a health care industry consultancy of a charitable organization’s arrangement to subsidize patient cost-sharing and premium obligations)

06-19-2007

Advisory Opinion 07-05 (PDF)
(concerning a proposal for certain physician investors in an established ambulatory surgery center to sell a portion of their ownership interests to a local hospital)

04-06-2007

Advisory Opinion 07-04 (PDF)
(concerning a pharmaceutical company’s patient assistance programs, which will provide free outpatient prescription drugs to financially-needy Medicare Part D enrollees entirely outside of the Part D benefit)

04-03-2007

Advisory Opinion 07-03 (PDF)
(concerning the use of rewards from credit card issuers for the benefit of a residential health care facility and its employees)

03-07-2007

Advisory Opinion 07-02 (PDF)
(concerning a hospital’s proposal to subsidize the cost of ambulance transportation for patients transported to the hospital from outside the hospital’s local area)

01-25-2007

Advisory Opinion 07-01 (PDF)
(concerning a hospital’s proposal to provide free dialysis services to chronic dialysis patients unable to obtain dialysis in their community)

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