tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 27

Business Arrangements: MRI JV PASSES OIG MUSTER

Four key elements win over the feds Despite the HHS Office of Inspector General's longstanding suspicion of health care joint ventures, you can craft a business arrangement that passes anti-kickback muster - if you know the ropes. Case in point: In its latest advisory opinion (No. 03-13), the OIG OK'd joint venture ownership of a freestanding magnetic resonance imaging center located on the campus of a rural community hospital. This marks the second time the agency has done so in the past several weeks -advisory opinion 03-12 also approves an MRI deal. The watchdog agency pointed out that the...

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