tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2007 Issue 35

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:
  • tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement +Archives

demo
request yours today
subscribe
start today
newsletter
free subscription

Thank you for choosing Find-A-Code, please Sign In to remove ads.