On August 13, the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services (“OIG”) issued a “Memorandum Report” examining the overlap between physician-owned hospitals and physician-owned distributors (“POD”) of spinal devices. OEI-01-14-00270. The Report was a follow-up to a report issued in 2013. In its follow-up report, OIG examined the data from its original report and determined that 119 physician-owned hospitals had purchased spinal devices from a total of 12 POD’s. OIG researched the ownership of those 12 POD’s and determined that exactly one physician who had an ownership interest in both a hospital and a POD that supplied spinal devices to that hospital. Yet OIG concluded this was a “concern” for possible fraud and abuse.
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