This webinar serves as both a Stark Law “refresher” and an introduction to the 2020 rulemaking. We set the stage for our seven-part series by outlining the Stark Law’s basic building blocks and detailed the ways in which the new rulemaking impacts several of these elements, including the definitions of “physician,” “designated health services” (DHS), “referral,” “remuneration” and more. 

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White paper

In December 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized long-awaited changes to the agency’s regulations governing the federal physician self-referral law, commonly known as the Stark Law (Final Rule). The Final Rule represents the most significant Stark Law rulemaking in more than a decade. The Health Care Group at Dentons US LLP is presenting a series of seven webinars, each with a companion white paper, addressing the principal components of the Final Rule. This is the first of these white papers. It sets the stage for the balance of the series, providing a high-level refresher on the Stark Law’s architecture and addressing a handful of changes—some minor, some more significant—that the Final Rule makes to the Stark Law’s most basic building blocks, including the definitions of “physician,” “referral” and “designated health services.”

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