Becker's Healthcare January 18, 2022
rom laws governing physician self-referral to group practice structure, here are six Stark Law updates from 2021 that ASCs should know.
1. Physician self-referral and indirect compensation:
CMS tightened regulations on physician self-referral and indirect compensation arrangements in its 2022 Medicare physician fee schedule final rule.
Three details:
1. Indirect compensation arrangements exist if referring physician compensation depends on the volume or value of referrals for an entity providing designated health services, and the compensation unit isn’t fair market value.
2. CMS clarified an “individual unit” of physician pay as being based on the provided item, service or time. The individual unit of compensation only includes services the physician provides, not services performed by a physician’s employee,...
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