STARK LAW: CMS Closes Another Loophole For Joint Ventures
Rural hospitals can pay some of your office's expenses when you recruitGood news: Your doctors may not have to rush to renew their medical director contracts when they lapse, thanks to a new regulation.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released its "Phase III" regulations on the Stark self-referral law on Aug. 27. After the harsh restrictions CMS proposed in the 2008 physician fee schedule, providers were braced for more hard-line changes. But instead, CMS chose to loosen some restrictions in this rule, which is separate from the fee-schedule changes.Here's what you need to know.Contracts: Starting...
To read the full article, sign in and subscribe to tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement.
Keep pace with evolving Medicare regulations — and onboard your team — with timely analysis of critical updates interpreted in an easy-to-follow, easy-to-apply format. Your subscription to TCI's Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement Alert will equip you to navigate code and guideline changes, CCI edits, and revisions to modifiers, payer policies, the fee schedule, OIG target areas, and more.
Current newsletters added each month
Fully searchable archives - over 4200 articles
ALL years/issues back to 2003 organized by year and issue
Codes mentioned in articles are linked to Code Information pages
Code Information pages link back to related articles
Access to this feature is available in the following products: