Payments to physicians, even for routine, necessary duties, may cause referrals to the entity making the payments to be "prohibited referrals" under the Stark Law. This means the hospital or other entity should not have...more
On June 9, 2015, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a Fraud Alert regarding recent settlements with 12 individual physicians who were party to questionable medical...more