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Title: Professional Services Agreements
Subject: Office of Compliance & Corporate Integrity (OCCI)
Policy No: OCCI: 2013: C05
Applies: RowanSOM
Issuing Authority: Rowan President & RowanSOM Dean
Responsible Authority: RowanSOM Chief Compliance and Privacy Officer
Adopted: Dec 15, 2009
Amended: 27/01/2013013July 1, 2013
Last Reviewed: Jan 6, 2015
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B. Although this policy is written so as to provide guidance for executing Professional Services Agreements in which RowanSOM Professionals are providing health care-related services to a Provider (see, for example, Section V. Procedure, Paragraph C: " RowanSOM Professionals shall provide the Provider with a written statement or other documentation substantiating the services that have been rendered prior to each payment."), this policy should be and is intended to be construed to apply also when the Provider is providing health care-related services to RowanSOM. In such cases, the guidelines set forth in this policy shall apply equally to a Provider.
IV. DEFINITIONS
A. "An actual source of health care business or referrals to RowanSOM, or between RowanSOM and a physician (or a physician's immediate family member (as defined at 42 C.R.F. 411.351)" - include, but are not limited to, another Physician, hospitals, long-term acute care centers, nursing homes, clinics, physician group practices, therapists and other individuals and entities who are in a position to influence or make referrals.
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