Compliance Perspectives: Changes to the Physician Self-Referral and Anti-Kickback Rules
On August 27, 2018, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a request for information (RFI) seeking comment on the anti-kickback statute (AKS) and the beneficiary...more
Many regulatory and legislative calls for modernizing the federal physician self-referral law (or “Stark Law”) in light of the move to value-based payment under Medicare have been made in recent months. Most recently, a...more
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking input from the public on the burden the Stark Law may impose on patient care and recommendations on how to address any undue...more
On June 25, 2018, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published a Request for Information (“RFI”) in the Federal Register regarding section 1877 of the Social Security Act, also known as the “physician...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services has issued a request for information seeking public comment on how to address the undue regulatory impact and burden of the physician self-referral law, commonly known as the Stark...more
CMS issued a Request for Information (RFI), seeking input from the public on how best to address and mitigate any "undue regulatory impact and burden" of the physician self-referral law ("Stark Law"). The RFI, filed on June...more