Lexology January 6, 2021
The US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently issued important updates to its Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) safe harbor rules that provide additional legal protections and flexibilities, in particular with regard to value-based enterprise (VBE) arrangements. While hospices have not been frequent parties to many of the burgeoning risk-based, value-based payment arrangements within the healthcare sector, with the anticipated Medicare Advantage carve-in, this will likely change and consequently hospices and their legal counsel are well advised to familiarize themselves with how hospices may benefit from the OIG’s revised AKS safe harbors.
Background
The AKS, a criminal law that prohibits kickbacks in any form to induce the illicit referral of healthcare business paid for by a...