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Archive > July, 2007 Vol. VIII, No. 7

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OIG frowns on common hospital-physician joint venture

Anti-Kickback Statute
OIG Frowns on Common Hospital-Physician Joint Venture
A fairly common ASC transaction may run afoul of the federal Anti-kickback Statute, says the OIG in an advisory opinion published last month. We asked Mark Manigan, a healthcare lawyer with WolfBlock Brach Eichler in Roseland, N.J., to interpret the advisory opinion.

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