OIG: Kiosks offering screening questionnaires okay
Healthcare Auditing Weekly, February 26, 2008
Kiosks that offer patients free disease state screening questionnaires in physicians' waiting rooms would not violate the anti-kickback statute, according to an OIG advisory opinion.
The OIG said it would not impose administrative sanctions on the pharmaceutical company that proposed the arrangement.
The kiosks would have a touch screen, keyboard, printer, and software that would enable it to display interactive questions about the four disease states. The kiosks would help patients determine whether they should discuss symptoms of any of the disease states with a physician. Neither the interactive questionnaires nor the kiosk itself would mention any drug names.
Physicians would not pay and would not be paid to have the kiosks in their waiting rooms. Physicians would not be required to prescribe the company's products in order to have the kiosk.
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