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Those serving in the health care industry are all too familiar with the Anti-Kickback Statute and the Stark Law – physician self-referral and fraud and abuse laws that prohibit...
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), in collaboration with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) and the Office of the Inspector General (“OIG”), has issued two final rules clarifying certain regulatory terms and adding and amending exceptions and safe harbors to accommodate “value” transactions under the Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”), the federal Physician Self-Referral Law (the “Stark Law”), and the Civil Monetary Penalties Law (the “CMP Law”). These changes, as we noted i...
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: CMS made impactful changes to the Federal physician self-referral law’s (i.e., Stark Law’s) regulations in its Final Rule that were effective January 19, 2021 (with the exception of the changes to 42 C.F.R. § 411.352(i) that are effective January 1, 2022). Although lengthy (190 pages/3-column format), the Final Rule is worth the read with multiple clarifications and revisions to the dense regulations. In this first part of our two-part blog, each reader will find gems in the Final Rule that are impactful, but we note particular...
Wednesday, January 6, 2021 On Jan. 19, 2021, the two recent final rules issued by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding changes to the Physician-Self Referral Law (Stark Law) and the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) regulations (respectively the OIG Final Rule and the CMS Rule, collectively the Final Rules) will become effective.[1] This alert is a part of the Dinsmore Health Care practice group’s ongoing summary of the Final Rules. The CMS Final Rule implements changes to the ...