Compliance: Find Out What the Stark 'Physician Self-Referral Law' Actually Covers
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If anything in the healthcare industry keeps physicians on their toes, it's the Stark Law. This group of strict regulations that prohibit physician self-referrals has been through several thorough sets of updates, and even then, not all the loose ends have been tied up.
For those that need a refresher: For Medicare cases (and potentially other payers on the state level), Stark prohibits physicians from making a referral to a "designated health service" (DHS) in which the physician or a direct family member of the physician has a financial relationship ...
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