Special Fraud Alert: Physician-Owned Entities

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title: "Special Fraud Alert: Physician-Owned Entities"
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#  Special Fraud Alert: Physician-Owned Entities

**AGENCY:**

Office of Inspector General (OIG), HHS.

**ACTION:**

Notice; Correction.

**SUMMARY:**

This document sets forth a correction to the OIG *Federal Register* notice published on March 29, 2012 (78 FR 19271), on our recently issued Special Fraud Alert on Physician-Owned Entities. Specifically, the Special Fraud Alert addressed physician-owned entities that derive revenue from selling, or arranging for the sale of, implantable medical devices ordered by their physician-owners for use in procedures the physician-owners perform on their own patients at hospitals or ambulatory surgical centers. An inadvertent error appeared in the *DATES* caption of that document regarding the effective date. Accordingly, we are removing the language regarding the effective date to ensure technical correctness of the document.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**

Patrice S. Drew, Congressional and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Inspector General, (202) 619-1368.

**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**

In our publication of the Special Fraud Alert on Physician-Owned Entities, an inadvertent error appeared in the *DATES* caption on page 19271 regarding the effective date of the Special Fraud Alert. The caption incorrectly indicated that the effective date is March 29, 2013. Since this document is a notice, no effective date is applicable and all language regarding any effective date is deleted.

Daniel R. Levinson,

Inspector General.