CEO SUMMARY: There is a new advisory opinion from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG). It reviewed a proposal in which a clinical lab network would pay fair market value to hospitals for specimen collection based on volume of patients tested. The OIG said this arrangement would violate the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, because hospitals […]
New OIG Advisory Opinion Dubious of ‘Fair Market’
Clinical lab network requested opinion based on proposal to pay hospitals for specimen collection
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XXIX, No. 10 - July 18, 2022 Issue
