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Compliance:

Dodge OIG Focus on Lab Referral Rules

Published on Tue Oct 10, 2017

Distinguish Stark, AKS. The way your lab gets patient referrals could be the subject of an Office of Inspector General (OIG) fraud case if you don't steer clear of certain practices. Refresher: You face two main areas of concern where labs and pathologists may unwittingly violate patient referral rules: The Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) and the Physician Self-Referral Law, more commonly [...]
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