CMS Asks How Physician Self-Referral Law Affects Alternative Pay Models

By Michelle M. Stein / June 20, 2018 at 7:26 PM
CMS on Wednesday (June 20) asked stakeholders for feedback on how the physician self-referral law, or Stark law, exemptions are working and what changes are needed to reduce barriers to care coordination for alternative pay models. The agency says it has identified some aspects of the physician self-referral law as a potential barrier to coordinated care, and the request for information says that “[a]ddressing unnecessary obstacles to coordinated care, real or perceived, caused by the physician self-referral law is one...


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