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2002

01-03-2003

Advisory Opinion 02-16 (PDF)
(concerning the waiver of Part B cost-sharing obligations for equipment and supplies used by Medicare beneficiaries to monitor blood glucose levels in a clinical trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health)

10-07-2002

Advisory Opinion 02-15 (PDF)
(concerning a proposal by a municipal corporation that owns and operates an ambulance service to treat revenue received from local real estate taxes received from its residents as payment of otherwise applicable copayments and deductibles due from these residents for emergency ambulance services)

Advisory Opinion 02-14 (PDF)
(concerning whether a proposed program to provide free safety equipment to hemophilia patients, as well as free electronic pagers to the parents of pediatric hemophilia patients, would violate section 1128A(a)(5) of the Social Security Act)

10-04-2002

Advisory Opinion 02-13 (PDF)
(concerning whether a proposed arrangement involving financial assistance by a non-profit foundation, which a pharmaceutical company proposes to establish and fund in order to subsidize cost-sharing amounts incurred by financially needy patients using its drug, would violate the administrative authorities related to the anti-kickback statute)

08-30-2002

Advisory Opinion 02-12 (PDF)
(concerning a proposed arrangement involving an internet-based chronic disease management business that would (1) contract with managed care organizations and employer-based health plans to enroll their members in an on-line clinical compliance program that includes awarding points redeemable for goods and services to members and their physicians for undertaking compliance activities, and (2) sell advertising on its web site to advertisers, including pharmacies and pharmaceutical companies)

08-20-2002

Advisory Opinion 02-11 (PDF)
(concerning whether a State-chartered hospital authority, which owns and operates a large teaching hospital, can make substantial charitable contributions to an endowment fund affiliated with the university in order to support and promote education and research at the university's school of medicine through developing a clinical cardiology services program, and whether this grant would violate the administrative authorities related to the anti-kickback statute)

08-07-2002

Advisory Opinion 02-10 (PDF)
(concerning whether the offering of discounts to customers, based on their purchases of dialysis equipment and supplies - some of which 05/be reimbursed under different Medicare part B methodologies - would violate the administrative authorities related to the anti-kickback statute)

06-21-2002

Advisory Opinion 02-9 (PDF)
(concerning whether a proposed single-specialty ambulatory surgical center that would be wholly-owned by a physician would violate the administrative authorities related to the anti-kickback statute)

06-19-2002

Advisory Opinion 02-8 (PDF)
(concerning whether a political subdivision of a State that owns and operates an ambulance service can treat operating revenues received from local taxes as payments of applicable copayments and deductibles due from residents)

06-11-2002

Advisory Opinion 02-7 (PDF)
(concerning the proposed waiver of coinsurance for portable x-ray services provided to nursing facility residents who are eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, but who do not meet the eligibility requirements for Qualified Medicare beneficiaries)

05-22-2002

Advisory Opinion 02-6 (PDF)
(concerning whether a proposal to offer a refund program to hospital consumers who purchase the hospital's blood-filtering device for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis would constitute grounds for the imposition of sanctions under the OIG's exclusion and civil money penalty authorities)

05-14-2002

Advisory Opinion No.02-5 (PDF)
(concerning whether the proposed reorganization of an existing radiation oncology group practice would violate the administrative authorities related to the anti-kickback statute)

04-26-2002

Advisory Opinion No. 02-4 (PDF)
(concerning a durable medical equipment company's proposal to place its portable oxygen systems onsite at certain local hospitals, clinics, and physician offices for distribution to certain departing patients)

04-04-2002

Advisory Opinion No. 02-3 (PDF)
(concerning an ambulance restocking program that will satisfy the criteria for a "general replenishing" arrangement within the terms of the recently issued ambulance restocking safe harbor)

Advisory Opinion No. 02-2 (PDF)
(concerning an ambulance restocking program that will satisfy the criteria for a "general replenishing" arrangement within the terms of the recently issued ambulance restocking safe harbor)

Advisory Opinion No. 02-1 (PDF)
(concerning a non-profit, tax-exempt, charitable corporation funded largely by drug companies that would provide financial assistance to subsidize, in whole or in part, the Part B cost-sharing amounts and Medigap premiums of financially needy Medicare beneficiaries suffering from relatively rare chronic diseases)

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