Browse Advisory Opinions

Concerning a proposed arrangement in which a hospital will share with a group of cardiac surgeons a percentage of the hospital's cost savings arising from the surgeons' implementation of a number of cost reduction measures in certain surgical procedures.

Concerning a malpractice insurance subsidy arrangement between a hospital and two neurosurgeons.

Concerning a series of cash donations to a nonprofit hospice from a charitable foundation affiliated with a health system.

Concerning a proposed contractual joint venture arrangement for the provision of pathology services.

Concerning a proposal to provide laboratory employees and related equipment and supplies at no cost to dialysis facilities for the purpose of preparing specimens for delivery to the laboratory.

Concerning a proposal to treat revenue received from local taxes as payment of otherwise applicable cost-sharing amounts owed for emergency ambulance services furnished by a city.

Concerning a municipal corporation that owns and operates an ambulance service and that proposes to treat revenue received from local real estate taxes as payment of otherwise applicable cost-sharing amounts due from residents.

Concerning a municipality that owns and operates an ambulance service and that proposes to treat revenue received from local income taxes as payment of otherwise applicable cost-sharing amounts due from taxpayers who receive ambulance services within the municipality.

Concerning a proposed arrangement to subsidize malpractice insurance expenses for four community-based obstetricians.

Concerning a county's proposal to enter into an exclusive arrangement for emergency ambulance services, with payment by the second responder to the first responder for the first responder's services.

Concerning a geriatric group practice's proposal to employ certain primary care physicians to serve as consultants in connection with the group's nursing home patients.

Concerning a proposal by a physician group practice to develop and own a comprehensive physical therapy center and to lease the center's space, equipment, and personnel to physicians with patients requiring physical therapy services.

Concerning a health system's provision of professional consultative services to low-income schoolchildren in predominantly rural areas through a sponsored telemedicine network.

Concerning a municipal corporation that is proposing to reduce its fees for ambulance services for residents by an amount consistent with their cost-sharing obligations.

Concerning participation as a volunteer pathology laboratory for a charitable foundation's medical assistance program for low-income, uninsured patients.

Concerning a proposed program to provide free vision screening tests for infants.

Concerning a marketing company's arrangement to design, develop, and implement physician surveys conducted on behalf of pharmaceutical firms.

Concerning a proposal by a political subdivision of a municipality that owns and operates an ambulance service to treat revenue received from a special utility assessment as payment of otherwise applicable cost-sharing amounts due from residents.

Concerning the waiver of Part B cost-sharing obligations for equipment and supplies used by Medicare beneficiaries to monitor blood glucose levels in a clinical trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.

Concerning a proposal to reintegrate a medical group and a hospital that were originally a single entity and whether the proposed arrangement would violate the anti-kickback statute.