Stark Law Ban on Physician Self-Referral

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• Health Services Organization: Corporate Compliance

  RESPONSE: Stark II addresses the consulting and relationships between hospitals, doctors and companies. For example, the purpose of the law is to prohibit physician self-referrals.

• Stark Laws and Healthcare Medical Malpractice

  Reference: Health Law. (2012). Physician Compensation Stark Law Compliance Excessive Compensation. Retrieved May 21, 2012 http://www.healthlaw-blog.com/category/stark-law-self-referral/

• Case: Criminal Behavior by Healthcare Provider

  The case you select may involve fraud or abuse (such as defrauding the Medicare or Medicaid programs, the Stark self-referral law, anti-kickback statute, or price-fixing) or other criminal act, such as patient abuse, murder, or theft.

• statute of limitations

  When one physician offers to pay another physician for a referral of patients. The "prudent person" rule refers to the information that a reasonable person would need.

• States' laws on physician assisted suicide and Euthanasia

  Those challenges aside, it is still possible to consider a BAN on PAS as the current state of PAS "law" and to consider the analysis of the controversy surrounding PAS as indicative of current policy.

• Professional Leagues & Alcohol Policies

  Players enter the intervention program if they test positive for substance abuse, exhibit behavior or symptoms of substance abuse, or through self-referral.

• Performance Management Project

  Other federal laws that affect managed care include the tax code for nonprofit organizations, anti-kickback provisions in antitrust law, and the Stark self-referral provisions [33].

• Health insurance plan

  PPO enrollees may self refer to any network provider at any time without a referral. It is similar to an HMO plan except you do not have to choose a physician to coordinate your care.

• Washington v. Glucksberg Case Brief

  Step 3 Issue: By denying competent terminally ill adults the liberty to choose death over life, did Washington's ban on physician assisted suicide a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause.