Enforcement:
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. [...]