At 01:03 PM 11/18/2003 -0600, Molly Daniel wrote:
>Even though we proposed treating all ambulance
>companies in our region equally for the EKG program, it was squashed on the
>basis that we would be "buying influence" with the ambulance companies and
>thus violating... I don't know, an Anti-Kickback law?

An example of this concern is expressed in the HHS OIG opinion at
http://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/docs/advisoryopinions/1997/ao97_6.pdf

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