Becker's Healthcare September 30, 2024
Patsy Newitt

Stark law has evolved into a complex framework that continues to challenge physicians, and as regulatory changes and enforcement actions escalate, leaders are grappling with how best to comply with these laws.

“Stark law legislation has become a hydra that has grown more heads with every attempt by the government to fix a specific ill,” James McCoughlin, MD, orthopedic surgeon at Panama City, Fla.-based Ivy Spine and Orthopedics, told Becker’s. “At some point the government must admit that its tinkering in healthcare has failed and the government should get out of the healthcare delivery business, and simply be a payer if Medicare or Medicaid avenues of care are to remain. Delivery of actual care should be returned to physicians,...

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