CMS Delays a Portion of Stark III
November 19th, 2007
The CMS announced this week that it will postpone for one year the so-called “stand-in-the-shoes” provision in the final rule implementing Stark III prohibitions against physician self-referral as applied to academic medical centers and not-for-profit integrated health systems. Other provisions of the rule will take effect December 4, 2007.
Modern Healthcare reported that the exception involved “indirect financial relationships between physicians and the hospitals to which they refer patients for certain services reimbursed by Medicare.” The magazine added that the reprieve came following comments that “it would be impossible to structure support payments that are routine in faculty-practice plans and not-for-profit systems while meeting the requirements of other Stark exceptions.”
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