January 16, 2009
The Office of Inspector General ruled a shared medical practice with 23 physician and podiatrist investors poses little referral abuse risk.
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January 9, 2009
Several colleagues and I would like to open a diagnostic center with lab, CT, MRI, and X-ray capabilities. We are all independent primary care practitioners in separate offices. How can we do this and avoid Stark Law violations?
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December 24, 2008
A physician group's proposal to employ part-time two physicians to perform endoscopies would not generate prohibited remuneration under the Anti-Kickback Statute, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) said in an advisory opinion posted December 15.
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December 19, 2008
By:Morgan Lewis Jr.
A Medicare bill introduced in July would require physicians to disclose to patients any self-referral of imaging services such as MRIs and CT scans.
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October 23, 2008
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) has given the green light to a hospital's proposed arrangement to change its pay-for-performance program to allow for sharing with a physician-owned entity a percentage of the bonus compensation it receives from a private insurer for meeting certain quality targets, according to an advisory opinion posted October 14.
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August 1, 2008
By:Virginia Martin, CPC, CHBC
Can we reward valued patients with gas cards, or does that violate governmental regulations?
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July 11, 2008
The number of physician-owned facilities has increased substantially in the past decade, and physician self-referral has resulted in higher utilization of services, especially imaging services, according to a new report issued by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s Synthesis Project.
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February 1, 2008
By:Wayne J. Guglielmo
You'll applaud some changes, but have trouble with others.
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January 1, 2008
Q. My wife, a family physician, owns a building where she practices. I'd like to rent space from her to open a satellite neurology clinic. Are there any Stark or other legal problems with this arrangement? We don't plan to routinely refer patients to one another, but what happens if a patient wants to see both of us?
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