Fierce Health Payers October 9, 2019
Many of the top health system and provider groups lauded the Health and Human Services’ proposed regulations aimed at updating the decades-old Stark Law saying they believe it is the start to removing major regulatory headaches stymying the shift to value-based care models.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and HHS’ Office of the Inspector General proposed rules on Wednesday introducing new safe harbors to the anti-kickback statute and reforms the 1989 Stark Law that bans physician self-referrals. The proposed rules would create new exceptions to Stark and safe harbors to shield value-based care arrangements between doctors and healthcare facilities.
For instance, the proposed rule would require healthcare entities to provide a written document to the government that...
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