tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 5

Hospitals: How To Keep Your Charitable Gifts From Backfiring

Could your good intentions get misconstrued as kickbacks? Find outDonating to tax-exempt organizations with which you have an ongoing business relationship could prove to be a tricky arrangement. But new tips from the HHS Office of Inspector General could help you steer clear of the pitfalls.In a Dec. 29 Advisory Opinion (No. 04-18), a health system asks if a donation from its affiliated charitable foundation to the only inpatient hospice in town will break anti-kickback rules. The new hospice, which will furnish inpatient and outpatient care to the homeless, among other patients, may refer some patients to the...

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