OIG Advisory Opinion 26-11: HHS Inspector General Approves Free Multi-Cancer Screening Report Under Anti-Kickback Statute and Civil Monetary Penalties Law

Key Takeaways In Advisory Opinion 26-11, OIG concluded that a precision oncology company’s offer of a free multi-cancer detection report to patients receiving a blood-based colorectal cancer screening test did not warrant administrative sanctions under the federal Anti-Kickback Statute or the Civil Monetary Penalties Law prohibiting beneficiary inducements, even though no safe harbor or statutory exception applied to the arrangement. OIG found that the arrangement’s … Continued