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Advertisement OIG Issues Advisory Opinion Allowing Pharmaceutical Company’s Payment of Travel, Food and Lodging Expenses for Indigent and Rural Patients Thursday, January 14, 2021 In its final Advisory Opinion of 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) approved a pharmaceutical company’s request to provide financial assistance to patients who were prescribed a cancer drug that the company manufactured. In Advisory Opinion 20-09, th...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: From December 23, 2020 through December 31, 2020, the OIG issued several advisory opinions. The advisory opinions analyzed (1) a program for a pharmaceutical manufacturer to provide financial assistance to certain patients, (2) a proposal from a qualified health center to offer gift cards to incentivize certain patients to attend preventative appointments, (3) a proposed web-based platform where health care facilities and clinicians c...