Healthcare Providers: Please Be Wary of Accepting Those Gifts! | Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: There has been a longstanding and regrettable practice in the healthcare industry of pharmaceutical and medical device companies giving physicians gifts as illegal inducements. Concerned about this continued trend, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued important warnings regarding providing inducements to healthcare providers (HCPs) – just in time for the holiday season! On October 29, 2020, the DOJ announced its first-ever enforcement actio...