Stark Law Changes: Opportunities for Alignment and Care Coordination

Doctors are applauding the federal government for removing legal barriers to value-based payment arrangements and the administrative burden of the Physician Self-Referral Law, commonly known as the Stark Law. More positive news arrived when the federal government significantly modified safe harbors under the anti-kickback statute and codified an exception under the civil monetary penalty.  The details of the “game changing” modernization will be explained in terms that physicians, executives, and contract administrators can digest.