The Department of Health and Human Services has released extensive and significant revised final rules governing the Physician Self-Referral Law (the Stark law) and the Medicare Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) in furtherance of...more
12/21/2020
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently updated its advisory opinion regulations, codified at 42 CFR §§ 411.370 through 411.389, in a final rule issued November 15, 2019. The update liberalizes and...more
12/23/2019
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In furtherance of its goals of expanding the adoption of electronic health records (EHR) and improving security through the use of cybersecurity technology, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proposed...more
11/13/2019
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The proposed rules released by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Wednesday, October 9, 2019 include new exceptions and safe...more
When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) sought input on ways to address the undue burdens of the Stark law through a Request for Information (RFI) in June 2018, its anticipated focus was care coordination,...more