The OIG’s Concerns with Potentially Fraudulent Medicare Advantage Marketing
By EsqSocial Corporation 20/12/24
The HHS Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) released a Special Fraud Alert to inform health care professionals (“providers”) and Medicare Advantage Organizations (“MAOs”) about the OIG’s view of potentially abusive marketing practices in the context of the promotion of Medicare Advantage (“MA”) plans. In particular, the OIG is concerned with two types of suspect marketing practices: (1) payments from MAOs to providers or their staff to steer patients to specific MA plans, and (2) payments from...
By: Polsinelli