Health Advisory: Slow Train Coming- OIG Issues New Anti-Kickback Safe Harbors, Clarifies Others: Expanded Coverage of Discount Safe Harbor Opens New Window for Incentive Arrangements: Better Late than Never
1/1/2000 This issue discusses the eight final "safe harbors" under the federal Anti-Kickback Statute issued by the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service' (OIG). Topics discussed include the approval of "bundled" discounting, the withdrawal of the sham transaction provision, and the release of an interim final rule on shared risk safe harbor.