The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) June 25 warned clinical laboratories and physicians that providing remuneration to physicians to collect, process, and package patients’ specimens and/or establishing databases to collect patient testing data could violate federal anti-kickback law. In a special fraud alert on laboratory payments to referring physicians,…
OIG Says Lab Processing and Registry Arrangement May Violate Anti-Kickback Law
by Glenn S. Demby | Feb 25, 2015 | National Lab Reporter, OIG-nir, Reimbursement-nir | 0 comments