tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 13

Hospitals: CHARITABLE PROGRAMS CAN EVADE KICKBACK PERILS

Hospitals with a charitable mission have to take care that their efforts to help indigent patients don't run afoul of the anti-kickback statute. But facilities that carefully structure their programs can get a clean bill of health from the HHS Office of Inspector General. Two advisory opinions released March 26 make the point. In the first opinion (No. 03-6), the OIG weighs in on a medical center's proposal to provide physician services to a county-owned women's health clinic - a clinic that primarily serves low-income patients - at an annual below-fair-market-value fee. The hospital also would provide certain inpatient...

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