tci Part B Insider - 2007 Issue 22

COMPLIANCE: CMS May Put Your Joint Ventures Out Of Joint

5 common financial deals that may soon be illegalCall your lawyer: You could be stuck rethinking your practice's financial arrangements if the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services- (CMS) proposed Stark law changes go through. Here are some common arrangements that the CMS proposal would make impossible: 1. Shared Costs: Two or three physician practices in the same building buy a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner together. -One way to do it is to say, -We-re going to buy the scanner and every time the scanner gets used we-ll pay the scanner entity X dollars,- says attorney David...

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