tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2007 Issue 28

PHYSICIANS: Find Out What Could Put Small Physician Practices Out Of Business

New CMS proposal could force you to scrap most imaging deals.Medicare isn't just threatening to cut your payments by 9.9 percent next year--it's also considering making many of the most common physician arrangements illegal. The result could be a scramble to scrap, or drastically revamp, many practices' joint ventures with other physicians or with hospitals, say experts. These changes to the Stark physician self-referral law are in the 2008 physician fee schedule proposed rule, and you have until Aug. 17 to comment.Here are the sweeping changes the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) wants to...

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