On December 2, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the final "Sprint Regulations," reinterpreting key aspects of the federal physician self-referral or "Stark" law. Most of the Sprint...more
There are three things that cannot be stopped: time, gravity, and the increasing complexity of the Stark Law. To be fair, complexity has not been the goal of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Rather, Stark's...more
With the benefit of more than three decades of rulemaking and hundreds of submissions under the Self-Referral Disclosure Protocol, CMS has seized the opportunity in the final Sprint Regulations to adopt a number of...more
The Sprint Regulations’ value-based exceptions and related amendments have attracted much well-deserved attention. However, value-based matters aside, the Sprint Regulations portend significant positive changes to the Stark...more
The federal physician self-referral ban or Stark law has been a part of the legal landscape for almost 25 years. The breadth of the law’s prohibitions, its strict liability formulation and draconian remedies have made it the...more
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