The Office of the Inspector General ("OIG") of the Department of Health and Human Services has issued a new Advisory Opinion, No. 03-12 ("AO 03-12"), which addresses a proposed joint venture imaging center between a radiology group and a medical center. The proposed joint venture is similar in some respects to the proposal in Advisory Opinion No. 97-5 ("AO 97-5"). The combination of these two advisory opinions provides insight into how the OIG might analyze other joint venture arrangements between hospitals and radiology groups and indicates that differently-formed arrangements can survive scrutiny under the anti-kickback statute.