Home Health Care News July 7, 2019
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is looking to relax federal anti-kickback rules related to how, when and where physicians refer their patients.
Doing so could mean smoother referral relationships for home health providers, especially the biggest ones and those operating within an accountable care organization (ACO).
Efforts to loosen anti-kickback regulations come from the 33-member Bipartisan Health Care Innovation Caucus, formed in May 2018 by U.S. Reps. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) and Ron Kind (D-Wis.). Specifically, the caucus is currently drafting and discussing legislation that seeks to “modernize” the Stark Law, in part by excluding certain value-based arrangements from anti-kickback rules and physician self-referral prohibitions.
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