President Biden announced that the COVID-19 national emergency and public health emergency (PHE) will expire on May 11, 2023. During the PHE, federal agencies were permitted to grant blanket waivers for certain health care...more
In late November, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Office of the Inspector General released their final rules revising the Physician Self-Referral Law (the “Stark Law”) and the Anti-Kickback Statute. The...more
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has issued additional waivers allowing for increased flexibility during the COVID-19 public health emergency (“COVID-19 Emergency”). Of particular importance is CMS’...more
On October 30, 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule, to be effective January 1, 2016, which added two new exceptions and made numerous clarifications to the Stark regulations....more