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Regarding approval of a charitable donation from a hospital to a volunteer emergency medical services provider to pay for new equipment and paramedic training.

Whether a hospital proposal to provide free restocking of medical supplies and drugs for volunteer emergency medical services would violate the anti-kickback statute.

Regarding free transportation services that a hospital offers to certain patients who have been referred to the hospital for extended courses of treatment involving.

Concerning an arrangement to provide various services free of charge to patients with terminal illnesses.

Concerning a consulting firm's contractual payment arrangements for the performance of auditing services to identify hospital undercharges and overcharges associated with private payors.

Regarding certain arrangements for discounted pathology services provided to physicians.

A proposed marketing program involving the use of physician practices and health care clinics to distribute coupons redeemable by certain retailers (including grocery stores, pharmacies, and internet companies) for discounts on items or services that are not reimbursable by any Federal health care program.

Concerning an arrangement sponsored by Coalition A (the "Coalition") to provide psychotherapy services at free or reduced prices using residents from local teaching facilities as clinicians (the "Arrangement").

Whether an across-the-board waiver of any out-of-pocket beneficiary copayments for medical services covered by the national Eye Care Project constitutes grounds for the imposition of a sanction under section 1128A(a)(5) of the Act.

Whether an annual fee imposed by city ordinance on ambulance companies wishing to provide ambulance services in the city (the "Ambulance Fee") constitutes prohibited remuneration under the anti-kickback statute, section 1128B(b) of the Social Security Act (the "Act"), and, if so, whether the Ambulance Fee assessment constitutes grounds for the imposition of sanctions.

Whether certain arrangements for discounted ambulance services provided to residents of Medicare skilled nursing facilities would result in prohibited remuneration and sanctions under the anti-kickback statute.

Whether a proposed arrangement under which [Name redacted] would assign an employee pharmacist to work in designated hospital transplant centers for the purpose of providing pharmacy-related products and services (the "Proposed Arrangement") would constitute prohibited remuneration under the anti-kickback statute.

Whether an ambulance restocking program, coordinated through a local emergency medical services council (the "Program"), constitutes prohibited remuneration under the anti-kickback statute, section 1128B(b) of the Social Security Act (the "Act"), and, if so, whether the Program constitutes grounds for the imposition of sanctions under the anti-kickback statute.

Whether a proposed management services contract between a medical practice management company and a physician practice, which provides that the management company will be reimbursed for its costs and paid a percentage of net practice revenues.

Whether a contractual arrangement for distribution and billing services between Company A and Company B (the ""Arrangement"") constitutes grounds for sanction under the anti-kickback statute.