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Health Law Checkup – OIG Issues Special Fraud Alert About Laboratory Payments to Referring Physicians
by Justin A. Shiroff
On Wednesday, June 25, 2014, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a Special Fraud Alert (the Alert) addressing compensation paid by laboratories to referring physicians. The latest in a series of guidance documents and advisory opinions addressing remuneration offered and paid by laboratories to referring physicians, the Alert sets out two specific problematic scenarios: Specimen Processing Arrangements and Registry Arrangements.
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