The report details a recent situation in which the OIG found “more than a minimal risk of fraud and abuse” in a proposed arrangement under which an anesthesia group, with an exclusive hospital contract, was asked to reassign its billing rights for electroconvulsive therapy cases to a psychiatry group that would pay the anesthesiologists a per diem below fair market value.
Find more information about the OIG advisory opinion here.
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