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Have a Plan for Planned Giving: Funds Being Donated Not a Factor in Fraud and Abuse Analysis

[02/25/22]

Posted on February 25, 2022 in Health Law News

Published by: Hall Render

On February 4, 2022, the Department of Health & Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issued Advisory Opinion 22-02 protecting a children’s hospital’s donor-funded charity program (“Proposed Arrangement”). Under the Proposed Arrangement, the requestor (“Children’s Hospital”) would use funds from two individual donors to establish a restricted endowment fund that would subsidize patient... READ MORE

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