tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2010 Issue 18

Stark Compliance: Offering In-Office Advanced Imaging Services? Get Ready to Enlighten Your Patients About Ownership, Other Options

Find out what CMS has proposed and what this new Stark reporting mandate could portend. Picture this: A Medicare patient goes to see a physician who orders a medically necessary MRI or CT scan. The patient receives the service in the physician practice's imaging center housed in the same office suite.Watch out: That commonplace self-referral may soon no longer comply with the Stark in-office ancillary services exception -- not if the physician fails to inform the patient in advance about his financial interest in the imaging service. The written disclosure also has to let the patient know that...

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