On April 23, 2026, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) updated its FAQs on General ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) updated its FAQs on Fraud and Abuse Authorities to add a new ...

On July 8, the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced the settlement of a civil money penalty and Medicare exclusion case with three physician-owned ...

Device industry group AdvaMed on Wednesday pledged its support for proposed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) changes to modernize and clarify the regulations that interpret the ...

In a year-end set of new regulations, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the HHS Inspector General finalized the Stark law exemption, which allows hospitals to fund up to 85 percent of ...

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As federal and state governments face budget shortfalls, hospital-physician arrangements face increasing Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute enforcement actions. Yet the rules of these laws remain ...

Some leaders feel that Stark law and anti-kickback statutes, once intended to safeguard Medicare dollars, are now having an unintended effect: pushing active physicians out of healthcare leadership.

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. One area that continues to raise red flags across the ...

Stark law, originally enacted in 1989 to curb physician self-referrals, has become one of the most contentious regulations in American medicine. While designed to protect patients from conflicts of ...