FREDERIKSEN, MATTEGAN WEAVER, EMILYJournal of Health Care Compliance
"Stark" reality: self-referral rule holds risk and opportunity On January 4, 2001, the Health Care Financing Administration (now the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services or ) issued Phase I of the final Stark II regulations (Final Rule). The Final Rule implements the Ethics in Patient ...
127. A health care provider is defined in 5 U.S.C. §8902a as a "physician, hospital, or other individual or entity which furnishes health care services or supplies."128. §2 of P.L. 105-266. 129. P.L. 105-274 revises language relating to preemption of state laws that was...
Finally, informed consent may be bypassed in rare cases in which a physician has objective evidence that informing a patient would render the patient unable to make a rational decision. Under these circumstances, a physician must disclose the information to another person designated by the patient....
FFS plans reimburse you or your physician or hospital for covered services rather than provide or arrange for services as prepaid plans do. FFS plans allow you to choose your own physicians, hospitals and other health care providers without a referral. Some are open to all enrollees, but others...
The PHE declaration gives HHS the authority to provide blanket waivers and Section 1135 waivers relating to otherwise applicable requirements under Medicare, Medicaid, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Physician Self-Referral (Stark) and other laws. During the PHE, ...
The bill, which codifies the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT in law, would afford anti-kickback and physician self-referral exemptions for hospitals.KelleyJaimieEBSCO_bspAha News