ASTRO Applauds MedPAC Review Of Stark Law Exception On Physician Self-Referral In Cancer CareNicole Napoli
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has made changes in the physician self-referral law (also known as the “Stark Law”) which will affect physician compensation plans. In particular, if the hospital or health system is trying to meet either of the following exceptions: indir...
CMS similarly was not persuaded that "patients" was a more appropriate measure than "encounters" for determining service areas under this exception. CMS also recognized the need for better outreach to FQHCs and RHCs regarding the physician self-referral law and its exceptions....
摘要: Focuses on the comments and opinions shared by the US Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) about the Stark II physician-referral law. Implications of the law; Provisions and exceptions of the law; Other key provisions of the advisory-opinion process....
“PFS”) Final Rule. In this post, we sample some key highlights from the Final Rule.For more detail, take a look at ourprevious post, in which we highlight the PFS’s changes to the Physician Self-Referral Law (“Stark Law”) regulations, and stay tuned for future pos...
"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 ...
Stark II added some additional health services to the self-referral prohibition, extended the prohibitions to Medicaid, and clarified conditions for exceptions. The law was amended for a third time, with the new amendments referred to as Stark III, going into effect on December 4, 2007. ...
Some medically ill patients can experience a split or fragmented sense of self in which the 'sick' or 'bad' part of the self is felt to be alien, with the feeling 'I don't know the person I've become' or 'This isn't me' [20]. One man in a study of EAS attitudes in patients...
Health care regulatory 101: Physician self-referral law: Group practice definitionShuren, Allison W.Wright, LoreliWood, Michael C.Ocular Surgery News
Fla. lawmakers revisiting physician self-referral law. (Florida Legislature)Sexton, Christine