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OIG, in a Departure, Approves Hospital Provision of Nurse Practitioner Services

McBrayer Law Blog

This is a small step in the direction of a more flexible OIG stance on the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”), but it doesn’t completely sidestep risks.

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Significant Changes to Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute Finalized

Foster Swift

Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) recently issued two highly-anticipated final rules (collectively, the “Final Rule”) to modernize and clarify the regulations that interpret the Physician Self-Referral Statute (“Stark”) and the Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”).

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Episode 23: The Emerging Investigatory Focus on Telehealth: What You Need to Know

Healthcare Law Today

And the OIG recently issued a fraud alert about telemedicine—really addressing the same sort of schemes that the Department of Justice was prosecuting, involving kickbacks to practitioners who never saw patients or only over the phone. If you look at the fraud alert, it talks about anti-kickback.