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Stark Law: The 27-year-old act killing healthcare reform before it can begin?
Becker's Hospital Review ^ | September 7, 2016 | Ayla Ellison

Posted on 09/07/2016 4:42:44 PM PDT by buckalfa

Enacted more than two decades ago to curb physician self-referral, Stark Law has evolved to become so complex that health system CEOs and even the law's namesake are calling for its repeal.

In 1989, Congress passed the Ethics in Patient Referrals Act, which was dubbed Stark I after Congressman Pete Stark, who sponsored the initial bill. The original statute was quite simple. It sought to ban physician self-referral for designated services when a patient was covered by Medicare or another government payer. Self-referral occurs when physicians refer patients to hospitals, labs and other entities from which they benefit financially. The intention was to eliminate any financial motivation for physicians to send patients for unnecessary testing that could raise overall healthcare costs.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: aca; starklaw
Conflict of intent between Federal laws. The Stark Act was designed to control costs by prohibiting sweetheart compensation deals between doctors and hospitals. The Affordable Care Act was designed to control costs by encouraging innovative sweetheart compensation deals between doctors and hospitals. I guess it is good to be overlord. The serfs break the law whatever they do.
1 posted on 09/07/2016 4:42:45 PM PDT by buckalfa
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To: buckalfa

Using the adage that if the Politician’s party is not mentioned they must be a Dem.

Surprise Surprise Surprise, Pete Stark is a Dem.


2 posted on 09/07/2016 4:55:48 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Held my nose to vote.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

ACA is patently illegal ON IT’S FACE: compulsion to contract is illegal. Yet the entire political & administrative establishment fell right in line with it. These people have diseased minds.


3 posted on 09/07/2016 7:14:10 PM PDT by Ray76 (Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo!)
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To: buckalfa

But is doesn’t work on stand alone doctors who have their own surgery facility attached and a hotel partnering with them to give discounts on stays. And inspections of those facilities are not the same standards as a Hospital, nor are they required to have the correct number of staff for the surgery part as hospitals do.

Stay the H away from the Shea Ear Clinic in Memphis, shady, shoddy, SADISTIC place. No Anthologist, 1 nurse and 1 play with your hair Barbie nurse’s aide, no working call buttons. NO vital checks even on seniors. And no pain med after procedures. Hope you like being held down when they shoot laser holes in your ear, because that is what they do if the SADIST doc shea gets the Versed wrong.


4 posted on 09/08/2016 6:37:34 AM PDT by GailA (If politicians won't keep their promises to the Military, they won't keep them to you!)
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