Lexology March 8, 2023
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently announced updates to the voluntary self-referral disclosure protocol (SRDP), including revisions to streamline SRDP submissions. Providers and suppliers may report and resolve technical violations under the physician self-referral law (commonly known as the Stark Law) using the voluntary SRDP process by submitting information to CMS about actual or potential violations of the Stark Law.
The revised SRDP process makes three key changes to reduce burdens on self-disclosing providers by permitting them to:
- use a single Group Practice Information Form to report noncompliance with the Stark Law’s group practice definition, rather than completing separate forms for each individual physician in a group that had a prohibited referral due to such noncompliance;
- submit...