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OIG Advisory Opinion Alert: Yet Another Favorable Decision for Medical Device Manufacturers

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22-05 , relating to subsidization of certain Medicare cost-sharing obligations in the context of a clinical trial involving medical devices (the “Proposed Arrangement”). Like these other AOs, OIG found that while the Proposed Arrangement could generate fraud and abuse risks under both the Federal anti-kickback statute (i.e.,

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Health Provider News – February 10, 2023

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over Claims Practices Where things stand in Central California 1 month after a community hospital’s closure California hospital names Kelly Linden CEO Upcoming California health bills to watch, including a conversation with Rep. Blue Shield of California is counting on it. million to UMass Memorial Health Care for COVID-19 costs Four Mass.

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The BFDs – The Ten Best Prescription Drug/Medical Device Decisions of 2023

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2023) (rejecting any express anti-preemption presumption in Medicare case) ( here ); Baker v. 2023) ( Buckman preemption barred MDL asserting fraud on EPA), cert. Instead, Zofran turned mainly on animal studies – three Japanese studies that were not “newly acquired information” that could avoid preemption. 3d 239 (Cal.

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