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THE Community360 Dementia café has gone from strength to strength, enjoying collaboration from local medical centres.

'The implementation of the Maryborough Model was a long time in the making.'

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are a showpiece of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010. PPACA, known as Obamacare, creates a program in Medicare to stimulate the development of ACOs by making Shared Savings Payments to ACOs if they improve coordination and quality of care and reduce costs. The Obama Administration has published proposed regulations to govern the Shared Savings Program and will issue final regulations before the program goes into effect on January 1, 2012.

The federal prohibitions on self-referrals and kickbacks, known as the Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute ("AKS"), have received new changes for calendar year ("CY") 2023...

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services made changes and provided a material clarification for providers and suppliers subject to the federal physician self referral law, Stark Law. The Stark Law is a technical Medicare payment rule limiting the types of financial relationships.