Thanks, Jeffrey. This provides an interesting background. I believe it might
be appropriate for us to ask the funding agency (a state agency, in our
case) to clarify why the directives in the agreement do not violate the
Anti-Kickback law.

Molly

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffrey Silber [mailto:xxxxxx@CORNELL.EDU]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 4:32 PM
> To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG
> Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] allowable use of funds
>
>
> 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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