Becker's Healthcare September 18, 2023
Four physicians joined Becker’s to discuss the Stark law trends they are eyeing.
Editor’s note: These responses were edited lightly for brevity and clarity.
Frank DiMaio, MD. Director of Catholic Health Physician Partners (Garden City, N.Y.): Durable medical equipment fraud continues in some centers.
Lawrence Kaplan, MD. Associate Dean at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine (Philadelphia): Since I don’t have ownership in anything I don’t think about it all. I also think I practice patient-centered care, so any referral would be based on what a patient wants/expects. The answer might be different if it was procedure-based and referring to outpatient surgery/GI centers that I was a part owner in, but even for folks in those disciplines, the...