FREDERIKSEN, MATTEGAN WEAVER, EMILYJournal of Health Care Compliance
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...
in 2008. As reported, House leaders in June have approved the removal of the self-referral ban from the supplemental appropriations bill for Iraq. The contentions that doctor-owned specialty hospitals take advantage of the exception in the federal physician self-referral or Stark law are noted. ...
Compliance Plan.]]>The article focuses on strengthening physician compensation compliance plan of organizations and ensuring compliance in federal physician self-referral statute or Stark law. It says that commercial reasonableness of physician can be determined by listing the required physician service in...
"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 ...
Overall, physicians earn about two thirds of their potential bonus. According to Belkin, this is in part because employers are concerned about the Stark Law against self-referral and want to build in safe harbor provisions that protect them from possible penalty, and so may cap the incentive ...
A physician may either self-refer or be referred to a PHP by a colleague or a medical staff office. Entering a contractual agreement with a PHP helps impaired physicians get appropriate treatment confidentially, allowing them to keep their license and subsequently practice, after completing treatment...
Physician self-referral for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) services is costing Medicare more than $100 million annually, rep... Mitka,Mike - 《Journal of the American Medical Association》 被引量: 9发表: 2012年 The Stark Law: boon or boondoggle? An analysis of...
2023, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry Citation Excerpt : Debates centre on the assessment of a patient's capability, levels of suffering, the irremediability of the illness, the principle of self-determination and the authenticity of the decision (Nicolini, Kim, Churchill, & Gastmans...
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....