On March 25, 2015, the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issued Advisory Opinion 15-04, which found that an exclusive arrangement between a laboratory and its referring physician practices could ...
A laboratory proposing to enter into an exclusive relationship with physician practices has been advised that the arrangement may violate federal law. The laboratory sought advice from the Office of ...
HHS’ Office of the Inspector General has issued an advisory opinion (pdf) stating that a clinical lab company’s plan to contract directly with physician groups to establish their own labs could ...
The Office of Inspector General released a new report on questionable Medicare claims for clinical laboratory services, for which program spending rose 29 percent between 2005 and 2010. The agency ...
The roughly 3,000 residents of Stamford, Texas, appeared to be on the verge of losing their hospital in 2015, another casualty of the financial crisis facing rural hospitals. But then Stamford ...
On April 28, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued an advisory opinion (No. 22-09) declining to approve a laboratory company's proposal to ...