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CMS Administrator Seema Verma gave her first update on a major overhaul to the Stark law, saying that a key part of the regulation will remove a barrier to doctors participating in value-based arrangements.
A major part of the agency’s updates to the anti-kickback law is clarifying areas of noncompliance for doctors and updating the decades-old rules to reflect the shift from a fee-for-service model to value-based care, Verma said during the Federation of American Hospitals’ policy conference in Washington Monday.
“Some changes include clarifying regulatory definition of volume or value, commercial reasonableness and fair-market value,” Verma said of the updated regulation likely to be released later this year.