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Medicare has issued a new form you need to use starting June 1 in physician kickback violation situations.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services “issued a new Self-Referral Disclosure Protocol (SRDP) Form that provides a streamlined and standardized format for disclosing actual or potential violations of the physician self-referral law,” CMS says on its website. “The SRDP Form will reduce the burden on providers and suppliers submitting disclosures to the SRDP and facilitate our review of the disclosures.”

While the deadline to use the form isn’t until June, CMS encourages providers to use it now.

See a link to the form and more information about Medicare’s SRDP at www.cms.gov/Medicare/Fraud-and-Abuse/PhysicianSelfReferral/Self_Referral_Disclosure_Protocol.html.