tci Part B Insider - 2007 Issue 38

COMPLIANCE: Stark III Delayed for Some Centers

Nonprofit, academic health centers get a short reprieveCertain academic medical centers and health systems just got a one year reprieve from the -stand in the shoes- provision of the Stark III physician self-referral rule. According to the Nov. 15 Federal Register, CMS will delay this provision until Dec. 4, 2008, but only for certain compensation arrangements between qualifying academic medical centers or integrated tax-exempt health systems and physicians.According to the -stand in the shoes- rule, any physician who is either an employee or an independent contractor of a -physician organization- will be deemed to have the same relationships...

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