Lawmakers Introduce Bill To Exempt APMs From Stark Law Provisions

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers Wednesday (April 10) reintroduced legislation to give CMS the authority to exempt alternative pay models and those under development from some Stark, or physician self-referral, law provisions, shortly after HHS Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan assured attendees at the American Hospital Association conference that the department would issue rules as fast as it can easing the Stark and anti-kickback statutes’ restrictions on value-based pay. A legislative proposal in the president’s fiscal 2020 budget to reform...