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Compliance:

Embrace Stark Law Changes

Published on Tue Dec 10, 2019

Value-based care is driving the revisions. If your pathology practice has stumbled over Stark restrictions in the past, you might welcome CMS’s proposed rule that gives a “Patients Over Paperwork” makeover of the law. Background: The federal Physician Self-Referral Law, commonly referred to as “Stark,” prohibits physicians from referring Medicare patients to an entity that provides designated health services (DHS) [...]
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