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Concerning a proposal to treat revenue received from local taxes as payment of otherwise applicable cost-sharing amounts owed for emergency ambulance services furnished by a city.

Concerning a municipal corporation that owns and operates an ambulance service and that proposes to treat revenue received from local real estate taxes as payment of otherwise applicable cost-sharing amounts due from residents.

Concerning a municipality that owns and operates an ambulance service and that proposes to treat revenue received from local income taxes as payment of otherwise applicable cost-sharing amounts due from taxpayers who receive ambulance services within the municipality.

Concerning a proposed arrangement to subsidize malpractice insurance expenses for four community-based obstetricians.

Concerning a county's proposal to enter into an exclusive arrangement for emergency ambulance services, with payment by the second responder to the first responder for the first responder's services.

Concerning a geriatric group practice's proposal to employ certain primary care physicians to serve as consultants in connection with the group's nursing home patients.

Concerning a proposal by a physician group practice to develop and own a comprehensive physical therapy center and to lease the center's space, equipment, and personnel to physicians with patients requiring physical therapy services.

Concerning a health system's provision of professional consultative services to low-income schoolchildren in predominantly rural areas through a sponsored telemedicine network.

Concerning a municipal corporation that is proposing to reduce its fees for ambulance services for residents by an amount consistent with their cost-sharing obligations.

Concerning participation as a volunteer pathology laboratory for a charitable foundation's medical assistance program for low-income, uninsured patients.

Concerning a proposed program to provide free vision screening tests for infants.

Concerning a marketing company's arrangement to design, develop, and implement physician surveys conducted on behalf of pharmaceutical firms.

Concerning a proposal by a political subdivision of a municipality that owns and operates an ambulance service to treat revenue received from a special utility assessment as payment of otherwise applicable cost-sharing amounts due from residents.

Concerning the waiver of Part B cost-sharing obligations for equipment and supplies used by Medicare beneficiaries to monitor blood glucose levels in a clinical trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.

Concerning a proposal to reintegrate a medical group and a hospital that were originally a single entity and whether the proposed arrangement would violate the anti-kickback statute.

Concerning an arrangement between a hospital and an ambulance company providing emergency air ambulance services to trauma victims in a rural setting, and whether the provision of free helipad and crew resting quarters would violate the anti-kickback statute.

Concerning whether a joint venture ownership of a freestanding magnetic resonance imaging center in a rural area could potentially violate the anti-kickback statute.

Concerning a proposed joint venture between a medical center and a radiology group to own and operate an outpatient open magnetic resonance imaging facility.

Concerning an ambulance company's proposed arrangement to collect a fixed annual subscription fee in lieu of Medicare Part B cost-sharing amounts from its members.

Concerning a proposed arrangement by which a Medigap plan would indirectly contract with hospitals for discounts on the otherwise applicable Medicare inpatient deductibles for its policyholders and would also, at the time of the next policy renewal, reduce the premium for policyholders utilizing a network hospital for an inpatient stay.