Special Advisory Bulletins

09-16-2014

• Special Advisory Bulletin: Pharmaceutical Manufacturer Copayment Coupons

05-21-2014

• Supplemental Special Advisory Bulletin: Independent Charity Patient Assistance Programs
  • News Release
  • Special Advisory Bulletin: Patient Assistance Programs for Medicare Part D Enrollees (11-07-2005)

05-08-2013

• Updated Special Advisory Bulletin on the Effect of Exclusions From Participation in Federal Health Programs

09-28-2010

• Special Advisory Bulletin: Average Manufacturer Price and Average Sales Price Reporting Requirements

11-07-2005

• Special Advisory Bulletin: Patient Assistance Programs for Medicare Part D Enrollees
  • Supplemental Special Advisory Bulletin: Independent Charity Patient Assistance Programs (05-21-2014)
• Text of Letter From Michael O. Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services, to the Honorable Billy Tauzin, President and CEO The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, Concerning Patient Assistance Programs
• CMS Perspective on Pharmaceutical Company Patient Assistance Programs

04-23-2003

• Special Advisory Bulletin: Contractual Joint Ventures

08-30-2002

• Special Advisory Bulletin: Offering Gifts and Other Inducements To Beneficiaries
  • Policy Statement Regarding Gifts of Nominal Value To Medicare and Medicaid Beneficiaries

06-27-2001

• Special Advisory Bulletin: Practices of Business Consultants

11-09-1999

• Special Advisory Bulletin: Patient Anti-Dumping Statute

09-28-1999

• Special Advisory Bulletin: The Effect of Exclusion From Participation in Federal Health Care Programs
  • Press Release

08-19-1999

• OIG letter regarding hospital-physician incentive plans for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries enrolled in managed care plans

07-08-1999

• Gainsharing Arrangements and CMPs for Hospital Payments to Physicians to Reduce or Limit Services to Beneficiaries
• Recent Commentary Distorts HHS IG's Gainsharing Bulletin
• Solicitation of Comments on the OIG/HCFA Special Advisory Bulletin on the Patient Anti-Dumping Statute

Medicare Bulletins

• What Medicare Beneficiaries Need to Know About Health Maintenance Organizations
• Publication of the Medicare Advisory Bulletin on Hospice Benefits