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Feds Target Experts’ Speaker Fees in OIG Fraud Alert

Published on Thu Dec 03, 2020

Hint: Expect scrutiny to ramp up post-COVID. If you didn’t have speaker fees on your fraud-and-abuse bingo card, you might want to add them. A recent case raises kickback concerns over this common practice and is sure to be on the feds’ watchlist in the coming months. Context: An HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) Special Fraud Alert issued Nov. [...]
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