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HS' Office of the Inspector General issued a fraud alert address-
ing physician compensation arrangements that outlined the conse-
quences physicians could face for accepting kickbacks disguised as
medical directorships.
e fraud alert warned that physicians must be careful when entering into
compensation arrangements, including medical directorships. "Although
many compensation arrangements are legitimate, a compensation arrange-
ment may violate the Anti-Kickback Statute if even one purpose of the ar-
rangement is to compensate a physician for his or her past or future referrals
of federal healthcare program business," the OIG stated.
To drive its point home, the OIG outlined recent settlements reached with
12 physicians who entered into questionable medical directorship and of-
fice staff arrangements. e OIG highlighted the reasons the arrangements
violated the Anti-Kickback Statute, including that the payments took into
account the physicians' volume or value of referrals and did not reflect fair
market value for the services to be performed.
e fraud alert should put physicians on notice, as the OIG determined the
physicians were "an integral part of the scheme and subject to liability under
the Civil Monetary Penalties Law." ose who commit fraud involving fed-
eral healthcare programs, including physicians, are subject to possible crimi-
nal, civil and administrative sanctions. n
OIG Kickback Alert Focuses on
Physician Compensation Arrangements
By Ayla Ellison
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