The Stark Proposed Rule: What You Should Know

On October 9, 2019, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced a proposed rule intended to modernize and clarify certain provisions of the Physician Self-Referral Law, also known as the Stark Law. See 84 Fed. Reg. 55766 (October 17, 2019). The Stark Law, which prohibits certain physician referral patterns, has remained largely unchanged…

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Call Coverage and the Specialist Physician

A universal truth about physicians… they all agree that call coverage is one of the worst parts of the job.  When a physician is accepted to membership in a hospital’s medical staff, the physician usually commits to being a part of the on-call pool as a condition of being part of the facility’s active medical…

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