The Medical Group Management Association is pushing for reforms to the Stark law, arguing that it no longer aligns with modern, value-based payment models, according to its 2025 Advocacy Agenda, ...
CMS recently issued a rare Stark law advisory opinion allowing a physician-owned hospital to relocate eight miles away and add an emergency department while retaining its “whole hospital” exception.
The Stark Law may have gone quiet, but it hasn’t gone away. One of the significant laws in the government’s anti-fraud and abuse arsenal, the so-called Stark Law has regulated hospital, laboratory and ...