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2008
- 01-07-2009
- Advisory Opinion 08-24 (PDF)
(concerning investments in a rural medical practice group by 23 physicians and podiatrists) - 12-19-2008
- Advisory Opinion 08-23
(concerning a proposal for a county, which provides emergency medical services (EMS) transportation through its fire department, to treat revenue received from taxes as payment of otherwise applicable cost-sharing amounts owed by bona fide county residents for EMS transportation to hospitals) - 12-15-2008
- Advisory Opinion 08-22 (PDF)
(concerning certain part-time physician employment arrangements) - 12-08-2008
- Advisory Opinion 08-21 (PDF)
(concerning a multiple-year arrangement in which a hospital has agreed to share, with cardiology groups and a radiology group, a percentage of the hospital’s cost savings arising from the physicians’ implementation of cost reduction measures in certain cardiac catheterization procedures) - 11-26-2008
- Advisory Opinion 08-20 (PDF)
(concerning a proposal whereby two suppliers of durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies will (i) place inventory in consignment closets on-site at certain hospitals and (ii) have licensed personnel on-call or on-site at the hospitals to train and educate patients who have been prescribed respiratory equipment and have selected one of the companies as their supplier upon discharge to their homes) - 11-05-2008
- Advisory Opinion 08-19 (PDF)
(concerning an Internet advertiser’s proposal to extend its "pay per call" or "pay per lead" advertising business to the chiropractic industry) - 10-28-2008
- Advisory Opinion 08-18 (PDF)
(concerning a proposal whereby a medical center providing emergency medical services transportation in a county would not bill bona fide county residents for applicable cost-sharing amounts, but would instead be paid such amounts by the county from a fund consisting of tax revenue derived from a special millage) - 10-21-2008
- Advisory Opinion 08-17 (concerning a nonprofit, tax-exempt, charitable organization’s proposed arrangement to provide financial assistance to cover cost-sharing obligations associated with outpatient drug treatment owed by financially needy Medicare or Medicaid patients with a certain disease)
- 10-14-2008
- Advisory Opinion 08-16 (PDF)
(concerning a proposed arrangement by which a hospital would share with a physician-owned entity certain performance-based compensation available to the hospital under a quality and efficiency agreement with a private insurer) - Advisory Opinion 08-15 (PDF)
(concerning an existing multiple-year arrangement in which a hospital shares with groups of cardiologists a percentage of the hospital’s cost savings arising from the cardiologists' implementation of a number of cost reduction measures in certain procedures) - 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)