The Office of Inspector General (OIG) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) jointly published final rules that expand upon and modify regulatory safe harbors and exceptions to the ...

The Physician Self-Referral Law (the “Stark Law”) and Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”) are two of the most prominent healthcare fraud and abuse laws in the United States. The Stark Law and AKS have been ...

The Stark law prohibits physicians from ordering designated health services for Medicare patients from entities with which the physician, or a family member, has a financial relationship unless an ...

On July 8, the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced the settlement of a civil money penalty and Medicare exclusion case with three physician-owned ...

Stark law, which prohibits physicians from making referrals for many Medicare-payable services to an entity if the physician or immediate family member has a financial relationship with it, has seen a ...

These changes revise the rule related to "overall profits" to prohibit pooling and distributing profits or productivity bonuses from designated health services (DHS), such as in-office laboratory or ...

Device industry group AdvaMed on Wednesday pledged its support for proposed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) changes to modernize and clarify the regulations that interpret the ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A medical practice may discover an unknown Stark Law violation during a merger or acquisition. Medical practices ...

HHS recently released a report that provides observations on the effect healthcare fraud and abuse laws have on the industry’s transition to value-based payment models. HHS released the report ...

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The Stark law prohibits physicians from ordering designated health services for Medicare patients from entities with which the physician, or a family member, has a financial relationship unless an ...