Stark rules are very complex, apply to a wide range of business deals and have numerous gray areas that require you to assemble many puzzle pieces, some of which are more than 10 years old. And just when you think you understand the rules, CMS issues more changes to send you back to the drawing board.
A Guide to Complying With Stark Physician Self-Referral Rules is the industry’s #1 roadmap to ever-changing Stark compliance — the best resource there is for making sure your contracts and business deals won't get you into legal trouble. It is the hands-on help you need to reassess your compensation, financial and other business arrangements — and avoid potentially enormous fines, penalties and lawsuits.
A Guide to Complying With Stark Physician Self-Referral Rules will:
- Walk you through the basic rules and the exceptions, plus update you on changes.
- Identify the kind of arrangements that will meet the Stark exceptions.
- Explain the impact of health reform legislation and what you need to do to minimize these serious new risks.
- Pinpoint the types of arrangements that will bring the HHS OIG to your doorstep.
The comprehensive how-to-do-it loose-leaf guide also comes with a searchable CD containing all of the information in the print edition, including:
- Highly practical chapters that are updated based on new regulations and advisory opinions.
- Easy-to-follow explanations of prohibitions, exceptions and other rules.
- “Stakeholder” chapters with implications for different health care entities.
- Appendices with regulations, advisory opinions and other pertinent documents.
A Guide to Complying With Stark Physician Self-Referral Rules is written by a team of experienced health care attorneys and overseen by Francie Fernald, J.D., managing editor of AIS's diverse line of loose-leaf services. Fernald has decades of experience covering complex tax, business and financial matters, as well as other regulatory issues.
Price: $524 annually.
Format: Loose-leaf guide, companion CD version, quarterly updates and news summaries for one year.
ISBN: 1-931467-77-3.
Pub Code: LSTA.
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