tci Part B Insider - 2004 Issue 2

Regulations Under Development

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services put another six-month delay on the effective date of a provision in the Jan. 4, 2001, Stark rule, granting another welcome reprieve to teaching hospitals and medical centers that were marking Jan. 7 as the launch of a paperwork nightmare. The controversy is over a single sentence in the Stark reg that deals with percentage compensation arrangements and the definition of "set in advance." Many of the exceptions to the Stark rule that apply to compensation arrangements can only be invoked if the amount of compensation is set in advance...

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