Compliance:
Government Eyeing Physicians' Relationships With Labs
Published on Thu Aug 21, 2014
Latest ‘Special Fraud Alert’ reiterates the shaky ground in lab contact. The relationship between physician practices and laboratories has been under scrutiny for many years, but the OIG has recently taken an extra step in its oversight of this connection. On June 25, the Office of Inspector General (OIG), which evaluates fraud in the Medicaid and Medicare programs, released its [...]