{"id":3155,"date":"2016-06-10T02:30:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T06:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3155"},"modified":"2016-06-09T12:04:30","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T16:04:30","slug":"federal-and-state-agencies-watching-patient-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3155","title":{"rendered":"Federal and State Agencies Watching Patient Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. attorneys for both Southern District of New York and Massachusetts have stepped up their oversight of patient groups\u2019 relationships with pharmaceutical companies advising the groups of possible violation of Medicare\u2019s anti-kickback rules. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2016\/06\/08\/drug-co-pay-assistance-programs-facing-increasing-state-federal-scrutiny\/85547788\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=30424414&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9OjtpcV9mDNkqXXCXL2QukYcjMcbvnEgXFX-r0AdyPNKgUjyLOR-hpkvf4Kw7A3xKvMP7FAAkCi7YxCs3D1ZSL5Fi3mA&amp;_hsmi=30424414\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here\u2026..<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. attorneys for both Southern District of New York and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3156,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155\/revisions\/3156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}