EKRA Rules, Regulations & Compliance: 5 Tips that Health Care Providers Need to Know | Oberheiden P.C.
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Most health care providers have at least a basic understanding of the Anti-Kickback Statute. This federal law prohibits providers from offering, paying, soliciting, or accepting any form of “remuneration” for patient referrals paid with funds received from government health care benefit programs. Most physicians are aware of the Stark Law as well—a federal law that imposes civil fines for doctors who engaging in unlawful “self-referrals” involving Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. However, there is another federal law t...