tci Part B Insider - 2007 Issue 37

COMPLIANCE: Doomsday Delayed For Many Common Joint Ventures

But your imaging suite could be a money loser nowGood news: You don't have to rethink all of your joint ventures with hospitals and other physician groups--yet. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) had proposed sweeping changes to the Stark physician self-referral law in the 2008 fee schedule proposal. The changes would have wiped out most joint ventures by banning -per-click- payments and making doctors into the same entity as their joint ventures. (See The Insider, Vol. 8, No. 22.)Those proposals aren't dead, but CMS did decide not to deal with them in the final fee-schedule...

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