The Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a Proposed Rule on October 2, 2014 that would amend the safe harbors to the Anti-Kickback Statute and the civil monetary penalty (CMP) rules to add new safe harbors to codify statutory changes in the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, that would protect certain payment practices and business arrangements from criminal prosecution or civil sanctions under the Anti-Kickback Statute.  The OIG also proposed to codify certain revisions to the definition of “remuneration,” added by the Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 and ACA and add a gainsharing CMP provision in the OIG’s regulations. Continue reading →