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Relocation of Physician-Owned Hospitals: CMS Advisory Insights

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued CMS Advisory Opinion No. CMS-AO-2025-1 on February 26, 2025, blessing the relocation of a physician-owned hospital. The hospital planned to relocate eight miles from...more

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CMS Opinion Offers Guidance on Relocation of Physician-Owned Hospitals

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On Feb. 26, 2025, McGuireWoods successfully assisted a physician-owned hospital in obtaining a favorable advisory opinion from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding its proposal to relocate the entire...more

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OIG Approves Hospital’s Redemption Offer to Retiring Physician-Owners

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On January 3, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) published Advisory Opinion No. 23-12, approving a physician-owned hospital’s offer to redeem over a two-year period the...more

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CMS Clarifies Expansion of Physician-Owned Hospital’s “Unlicensed” Observation Beds Under Stark “Whole Hospital” Exception

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued an advisory opinion under the federal physician-self referral law (the “Stark Law”) (Advisory Opinion No. CMS-AO-2021-2) (the “Advisory Opinion”) clarifying...more

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CMS Advisory Opinion 2019-01 Approves Physician-Owned Hospital's Plan to Use Dormant Remote Operating Rooms

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A physician-owned hospital with operating rooms at a second campus that have been inactive since before March 23, 2010 received approval from CMS to include such spaces within the hospital's aggregate capacity limits,...more

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