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Gift Cards May Invite Compliance Problems, New OIG Guidance Says

If you handed out gift cards to patients this holiday season, you may want to make it the last time. Gift cards have come under HHS Office of Inspector General scrutiny in a new advisory opinion and may not be compliant with the Nominal Value Exception. “Big-box” store gift cards are especially problematic. The OIG defines “big-box” as stores that [...]
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