June 30, 2009           By Laura James, Of Counsel

To view the full the Advisory Opinion document 09-06 (concerning an existing arrangement in which a hospital has agreed to share with a cardiology group, a vascular surgical group, and an interventional radiology group a percentage of the hospital's cost savings arising from the physicians' implementation of a number of cost-reduction measures in certain cardiac catheterization procedures), click here:

http://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/docs/advisoryopinions/2009/AdvOpn09-06.pdf

To view the full Advisory Opinion document Opinion 09-07 (concerning a proposal to expand an existing program that provides free oral nutritional supplements to malnourished end-stage renal disease patients who are on dialysis), click here:

http://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/docs/advisoryopinions/2009/AdvOpn09-07.pdf