Trump Moves to Ease Anti-Fraud Rules in Bid to Improve Care (1)

The Trump administration today released proposed changes to how two anti-fraud laws are carried out that are aimed at easing restraints on health-care providers and improving care.

Modifications to the rules under the physician self-referral law and the anti-kickback statute include exceptions and safe harbors to make it easier for doctors to experiment with new financial arrangements and ways to pay for health care, administration officials say.

Some of the ways that physicians want to coordinate care are not always illegal under the laws, but they may be effectively prohibited because of the difficulty in understanding the laws’ provisions, Eric ...