{"id":497,"date":"2025-06-09T16:24:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T20:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/?p=497"},"modified":"2025-06-11T10:56:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:56:15","slug":"take-care-when-paying-volume-based-compensation-to-sales-agents-to-avoid-anti-kickback-statute-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/2025\/06\/09\/take-care-when-paying-volume-based-compensation-to-sales-agents-to-avoid-anti-kickback-statute-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Care When Paying Volume-Based Compensation to Sales Agents to Avoid Anti-Kickback Statute Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/frederickrball.html\">Frederick R. Ball<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/coleenwhill.html\">Coleen W. Hill<\/a> and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/victoriahawekotte.html\">Victoria (Tori) Hawekotte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pharmaceutical and medical device companies sometimes compensate sales agents per volume sold. The Fifth and Seventh Circuits have indicated that a company may structure such arrangements without running afoul of the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS). However, such arrangements carry risk of violating the AKS and should be structured with care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/take_care_when_paying_volume_based_compensation_sales_agents_avoid_antikickback_statute_0625.html\">Read the full story on the Duane Morris LLP website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By &nbsp;Frederick R. Ball,&nbsp;Coleen W. Hill and&nbsp;Victoria (Tori) Hawekotte Pharmaceutical and medical device companies sometimes compensate sales agents per volume sold. The Fifth and Seventh Circuits have indicated that a company may structure such arrangements without running afoul of the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS). However, such arrangements carry risk of violating the AKS and should be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/2025\/06\/09\/take-care-when-paying-volume-based-compensation-to-sales-agents-to-avoid-anti-kickback-statute-violations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Take Care When Paying Volume-Based Compensation to Sales Agents to Avoid Anti-Kickback Statute Violations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[521],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"authors":[{"term_id":521,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}