tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2007 Issue 40

STARK LAW: Inducements Must Be On The Table Before Doctor Comes

You can't change the terms of relocation bonuses after the relocation has happenedNow that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finished laying out the sweeping changes it wants to make to the Stark self-referral law, it's ready to give some advice. CMS issued an advisory opinion (CMS-AO-2007-01) on the Stark law in response to a question from a hospital and physician. Experts hope this may be the first of many opinions clarifying some thorny Stark issues. The actual opinion is "pretty straightforward," says Washington, DC, attorney Kevin McAnaney, who was an official with the HHS...

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