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Rural Roads To Acos: Inter-Community Collaboration Is Key To Rural Accountable Care Organizations' Success Under Medicare's Shared Savings Program, Justin Kearns
West Virginia Law Review
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The Stark Physician Self-Referral Law And Accountable Care Organizations: Collision Course Or Opportunity To Reconcile Federal Anti-Abuse And Cost-Saving Legislation?, Benjamin Holland Able
The Stark Physician Self-Referral Law And Accountable Care Organizations: Collision Course Or Opportunity To Reconcile Federal Anti-Abuse And Cost-Saving Legislation?, Benjamin Holland Able
Journal of Law and Health
Scholars and legal practitioners have long debated the virtues and vices of integrated models of health care delivery and financing. Few such models have been as promising or as rapidly adopted as Accountable Care Organizations (“ACOs”), the latest concept in delivering cost-effective, high-quality health care. Implementation of pre-ACO models, however, never required extensive grants of immunity to providers and suppliers from the federal Stark physician self-referral law (“Stark”) and other fraud and abuse laws. The broad waivers issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) for implementing ACOs raise unprecedented legal questions concerning Stark’s application to these hospital/physician …