OIG Issues Advisory Opinion Allowing Pharmaceutical Company’s Payment of Travel, Food and Lodging Expenses for Indigent and Rural Patients
By EsqSocial Corporation 15/01/21
In its final Advisory Opinion of 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) approved a pharmaceutical company’s request to provide financial assistance to patients who were prescribed a cancer drug that the company manufactured. In Advisory Opinion 20-09, the OIG determined it would not impose sanctions under the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) or beneficiary inducement provision of the Civil Monetary Penalties Law (CMP) for an arrangement where a...
By: Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP