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Accountable Care Organizations: Draft rules and guidance released by CMS, IRS, OIG, FTC
When it rains it pours. CMS today released several hotly anticipated goodies related to Accountable Care Organizations. First and foremost, the agency published a 429-page draft that details how CMS
Physicians challenge state self-referral restrictions
While the practice of physician self-referral has faced increasing scrutiny nationwide, the proliferation of physician-owned centers offering prostate-cancer patients intensity-modulated radiation
New physician self-referral rules could change hospital deals
About a year ago, CMS approved major changes to existing anti-self referral arrangements by changing the rules for the Medicare hospital inpatient PPS system. Now, as of October 1, the rules will
NJ bill allows for docs to refer patients to their own ASCs
A bill signed in New Jersey on Monday allows doctors to refer patients to their own ambulatory surgery centers, but specifies that the referring physician must also perform the surgery themselves.
House adds self-referral ban to SCHIP bill
Congress will soon be considering a bill to reauthorize the State Children's Health Insurance Program, the House version of which would ban physician self-referral to hospitals in which they have an
Study: Few hospitals offering subsidized EMRs
When HHS and the IRS both gave their OK to hospitals offering subsidized EMRs to their physicians, it was a big day. Hospitals had been waiting impatiently for the go-ahead for quite some time, and
Trend: Huge growth in use of CT scans troubles observers
At one point, CT scans were used now and then, when doctors had few alternatives. Today, however, CT scans have become a standard method for diagnosing ordinary problems like kidney stones, frequent
