Physicians, Medical Groups Beware Recent OIG Special Fraud Alert Targets Lab Payments for Blood Specimens & Patient Data
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General(OIG) recently issued a Special Fraud Alert based on a concern that laboratory payments to referring physicians and physician group practices for blood specimen collection, processing, and packaging, and for submitting patient data to a registry or database could constitute illegal remuneration under the […]