Medicare Doctor Self-Referral Proposal Out by Labor Day (1)

A Medicare proposal to overhaul the physician self-referral law will be released by Labor Day, a senior Medicare official said June 27.

The proposed rule will address responses to a request for information on reducing administrative burdens associated with the Stark law issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in June 2018, Kim Brandt, the CMS principal deputy administrator for operations, said.

The Stark law prohibits almost all referrals of Medicare patients to entities with which a doctor has a financial relationship. Medicare is in the midst of transitioning from paying health-care providers for individual services to paying ...