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A federally qualified health center (FQHC) received the go-ahead of the Office of Inspector General (OIG) to offer $20 gift cards as one-time incentives for pediatric patients who have previously missed at least two care appointments to reschedule and attend their appointments. The OIG reviewed the proposed incentive arrangement in Advisory Opinion No. 20-08, issued in December 2020, and determined that offering and providing the gift cards, as proposed by the FQHC, presents a low risk of fraud and abuse and does not constitute grounds for the imposition of sanctions under the under the Anti-Kickback Statute or the beneficiary inducement civil monetary penalties (CMP) law.