Compliance: A Reprieve For Many Common Joint Ventures
But your imaging suite could be a money loser now
Good 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.
Those proposals aren't dead, but CMS did decide not to deal with them in the final fee-schedule rule. Instead, CMS will...
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