Physician Self-Referral Law/Stark law
The AHA today shared with Congress and HHS a new report that examines the barriers to transforming health care delivery created by outdated fraud and abuse laws. This report recommends the enactment of comprehensive safe harbors to remove outdated barriers and replace them with measures to foster…
Congress should adopt a single broad exception to federal fraud and abuse laws for financial relationships designed to foster collaboration, efficiencies and improvements in health care, the AHA last week told leaders of the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means committees.
Congress should adopt a single broad exception to federal fraud and abuse laws for financial relationships designed to foster collaboration, efficiencies and improvements in health care, AHA told leaders of the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means committees today.
National hospital groups today urged Congress to oppose H.R. 2513, legislation that would loosen current restrictions on the growth of physician-owned hospitals. “By steering their most profitable cases to facilities they own, physician-owners inflate health care costs and drain essential resources…