Physician Self-Referral Law/Stark law
By removing outdated barriers to teamwork, hospitals and doctors will be able to advance health in America.
AHA members can watch a replay of today’s Town Hall webcast featuring Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma. AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack and Verma discussed two proposed rules released last week to modernize the Stark Law and Anti-kickback Statute.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) yesterday released two proposed rules that would modernize and make major changes to the physician self-referral (Stark) and federal anti-kickback statute (AKS) regulations.
As long advocated by the AHA, the Department of Health and Human Services today proposed modernizing the Stark Law on physician self-referral and the Anti-kickback Statute.
The AHA supports a number of proposed policy changes that ensure access to care, support public health efforts, improve quality and promote regulatory relief. Specifically, we strongly support CMS’s proposed reversal of its previously finalized policies for evaluation and management payments.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services July 29 issued a proposed rule that would update physician fee schedule payments for calendar year 2020.
AHA response to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ request for information on the Geographic Population-Based Payment model option of the Primary Cares Initiative.
The Department of Health and Human Services aims to release proposed rules amending the physician self-referral (Stark law) regulations and safe-harbors under the anti-kickback statute by July.
In remarks this week, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma hinted at some of the coming changes to the agency’s Stark Law regulations.
Proposed rules that would make changes to the Stark Law and anti-kickback statute are working their way through the federal review process and could be released this year, Department of Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan said yesterday at a Brookings Institution event.