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2004

01-06-2005

Advisory Opinion 04-19 (PDF)
(concerning a malpractice insurance subsidy arrangement between a hospital and two neurosurgeons)

12-29-2004

Advisory Opinion 04-18 (PDF)
(concerning a series of cash donations to a nonprofit hospice from a charitable foundation affiliated with a health system)

12-17-2004

Advisory Opinion 04-17 (PDF)
(concerning a proposed contractual joint venture arrangement for the provision of pathology services)

11-24-2004

Advisory Opinion 04-16 (PDF)
(concerning a proposal to provide laboratory employees and related equipment and supplies at no cost to dialysis facilities for the purpose of preparing specimens for delivery to the laboratory)

11-05-2004

Advisory Opinion 04-15 (PDF)
(concerning grants provided by a nonprofit, charitable organization to financially-needy patients suffering from specific chronic or life-threatening diseases to defray the costs of prescription drug therapies)

11-04-2004

Advisory Opinion 04-14 (PDF)
(concerning a proposal to treat revenue received from local taxes as payment of otherwise applicable cost-sharing amounts owed for emergency ambulance services furnished by a city)

10-12-2004

Advisory Opinion 04-13 (PDF)
(concerning a municipal corporation that owns and operates an ambulance service and that proposes to treat revenue received from local real estate taxes as payment of otherwise applicable cost-sharing amounts due from residents)

09-28-2004

Advisory Opinion 04-12 (PDF)
(concerning a municipality that owns and operates an ambulance service and that proposes to treat revenue received from local income taxes as payment of otherwise applicable cost-sharing amounts due from taxpayers who receive ambulance services within the municipality)

09-09-2004

Advisory Opinion 04-11 (PDF)
(concerning a proposed arrangement to subsidize malpractice insurance expenses for four community-based obstetricians)

08-11-2004

Advisory Opinion 04-10 (PDF)
(concerning a county's proposal to enter into an exclusive arrangement for emergency ambulance services, with payment by the second responder to the first responder for the first responder's services)

07-22-2004

Advisory Opinion 04-09 (PDF)
(concerning a geriatric group practice’s proposal to employ certain primary care physicians to serve as consultants in connection with the group’s nursing home patients)

06-30-2004

Advisory Opinion 04-08 (PDF)
(concerning a proposal by a physician group practice to develop and own a comprehensive physical therapy center and to lease the center’s space, equipment, and personnel to physicians with patients requiring physical therapy services)

06-24-2004

Advisory Opinion 04-07 (PDF)
(concerning a health system’s provision of professional consultative services to low-income schoolchildren in predominantly rural areas through a sponsored telemedicine network)

06-14-2004

Advisory Opinion 04-06 (PDF)
(concerning a municipal corporation that is proposing to reduce its fees for ambulance services for residents by an amount consistent with their cost-sharing obligations)

06-09-2004

Advisory Opinion 04-05 (PDF)
(concerning participation as a volunteer pathology laboratory for a charitable foundation’s medical assistance program for low-income, uninsured patients)

06-02-2004

Advisory Opinion 04-04 (PDF)
(concerning a proposed program to provide free vision screening tests for infants)

06-01-2004

Advisory Opinion 04-03 (PDF)
(concerning a marketing company’s arrangement to design, develop, and implement physician surveys conducted on behalf of pharmaceutical firms)

03-08-2004

Advisory Opinion 04-02 (PDF)
(concerning a proposal by a political subdivision of a municipality that owns and operates an ambulance service to treat revenue received from a special utility assessment as payment of otherwise applicable cost-sharing amounts due from residents)

02-09-2004

Advisory Opinion 04-01 (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)

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