Final self-referral regulations coming in March. ('Stark II').

Publication: Skin & Allergy News

Publication Date: 01-DEC-01

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COPYRIGHT 2001 International Medical News Group

WASHINGTON -- The final draft of the federal physician self-referral regulations may help fix some of the problems found with both the original regulations and interim drafts, Sanford Teplitzky said at a meeting sponsored by the American Health Lawyers Association.

The physician self-referral regulations, known as "Stark II," were supposed to go into effect Jan. 1, 2002, but President Bush issued a memo earlier this year extending the effective date for any "published-but-not-yet-in-effect" regulations by 60 days, which would make them effective on MARCH...

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