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Advisory Opinion 02-11

Concerning whether a State-chartered hospital authority, which owns and operates a large teaching hospital, can make substantial charitable contributions to an endowment fund affiliated with the university in order to support and promote education and research at the university's school of medicine through developing a clinical cardiology services program, and whether this grant would violate the administrative authorities related to the anti-kickback statute.

Advisory Opinion 02-11