Search for: "STARK HOSPITAL" Results 81 - 100 of 1,094
Sorted by Relevance | Sort by Date
RSS Subscribe: 20 results | 100 results
17 May 2013, 10:11 am
The jury found that Tuomey violated the FCA by submitting 21,730 claims to the Medicare program that were tainted by illegal compensation arrangements which induced physicians to refer patients to the hospital in violation of the Stark Law. [read post]
20 Nov 2015, 1:31 pm by Lisa Baird
The provisions of the final rule are effective on January 1, 2016, except for certain changes on calculating ownership percentages for physician-owned hospitals, which are effective January 1, 2017. [read post]
22 Mar 2011, 8:22 am by Darrell Armer
Sam Johnson (R-Texas), would repeal Sections 6001 and 6002 of the health care reform law, which limit the Stark law exceptions for physician-owned hospitals. [read post]
13 Sep 2017, 8:04 pm by Ben Vernia
These relationships took the form of compensation and office lease arrangements that did not comply with the requirements of the Stark Law, which restricts the financial relationships that hospitals may have with doctors who refer patients to them. [read post]
25 Sep 2015, 6:31 am by Wachler & Associates, P.C.
Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced a $69.5 million settlement with the North Broward Hospital District (the “District”) arising out of allegations that the District violated the federal Stark law and False Claims Act by entering into improper financial relationships with employed physicians. [read post]
8 Dec 2014, 6:22 am
The Stark Law provides two exceptions for relatively minor remuneration provided to a referring physician.Under the non-monetary compensation exception, a hospital or other entity may provide up to the non-monetary compensation limit for items or services (but not cash or cash equivalents) provided to a physician. [read post]
8 Dec 2014, 6:22 am
The Stark Law provides two exceptions for relatively minor remuneration provided to a referring physician.Under the non-monetary compensation exception, a hospital or other entity may provide up to the non-monetary compensation limit for items or services (but not cash or cash equivalents) provided to a physician. [read post]
31 Mar 2011, 6:07 am by Ellen Houston
Physician benefits should be consistent with those provided to other hospital employees. [read post]
2 Sep 2011, 9:52 am by Michael H. Cohen
A federal judge ruled that an acute care hospital violated Stark laws by submitting claims to Medicare that were induced by referrals.The judge ruled that Stark prohibitions against self-referral were violated as a matter of law, which means they did not even have to go before a jury. [read post]
17 Apr 2023, 4:23 pm by Ben Vernia
On April 17, the Department of Justice announced that Johns Hopkins Health System, and its subsidiary Sibley Hospital in northwest Washington, D.C., have agreed to pay $5 million to settle civil claims that the companies violated the Stark Law’s prohibition against physician self-referrals. [read post]
30 Nov 2020, 10:43 am by Anuja Vaidya - Medcity News
CMS has finalized changes to the Physician Self-Referral Law, also known as Stark Law. [read post]
21 Jan 2016, 9:23 am by Green and Associates
For the most part, the hospital had new contracts in place by the time the hospital first reported the problems to the federal government in 2011.The Stark Law generally forbids a hospital from billing Medicare for certain services referred by physicians who have a financial relationship with the hospital unless that relationship falls within an enumerated exception. [read post]
24 Jul 2018, 10:56 am
A nurse at the center of a contentious unionization effort at a Stark County hospital was fired after an internal investigation. [read post]
10 Apr 2020, 10:20 am by Mitchel Denham
The waivers apply to 18 categories of arrangements which fall under the Stark Law. [read post]
2 Dec 2013, 4:31 am by Amber Walsh
District Court in the Middle District of Florida regarding Halifax Hospital Medical Center's compensation of employed oncologists highlights the Stark law issues inherent in compensation methodologies. [read post]
23 Jun 2010, 6:07 am by Stark & Stark
Cohen, Chair of StarkStark's Nursing Home Litigation Group, authored the article, Decubitus Ulcers: An Update on Staging and The Impact of Never Events on Hospital Litigation, for the June 21, 2010 edition of the New Jersey Law Journal. [read post]
8 Jul 2020, 8:48 am by Ben Vernia
  The Physician Self-Referral Law, commonly known as the Stark Law, prohibits a hospital from billing Medicare for certain services referred by physicians with whom the hospital has an improper financial arrangement, including the payment of compensation that exceeds the fair market value of the services actually provided by the physician and the provision of free or below-market rent and office staff. [read post]
30 Dec 2011, 8:54 am
The relationship was permissible under Stark because the hospital would bill for the services, deeming the hospital the entity furnishing the designated health services ("DHS"), not the physicians. [read post]
1 Nov 2009, 11:04 am
The Department of Justice announced on October 30 that a McAllen, Texas-based hospital group settled FCA, Antikickback Statute, and Stark allegations raised in a qui tam for $27.5 million. [read post]