For Your Health:
Keeping the Pulse of the Law
Don’t expose yourself to unnecessary risks. Documentation containing inadvertent errors can often times be used as the basis for civil lawsuits and criminal prosecutions before those accused have the opportunity to explain or correct those errors. SNF scrutiny in a politically charged environment warrants operators to place additional emphasis on documentation compliance to avoid issues.
There is good news for health care providers this holiday season with HHS’s recent announcement of numerous revisions liberalizing the AKS, Stark and CMP Laws. Among the helpful changes are modifications to the popular AKS personal services and management contracts safe harbor for part-time arrangements, and new AKS safe harbors and Stark exceptions for care coordination activities that could benefit post-acute care providers.
