In order to ensure accountable care organization (ACO) and patient experience success, providers must collaborate across the continuum of care, suggested a recent study out of the Ohio State University Fisher College of Business. “We found that if an ACO wants to be successful, it needs representation across all parts of a patient’s continuum of care,”…
The first step in qualifying to meet the requirements of a value-based Stark exception or a valuebased Anti-Kickback Statute safe harbor is that the parties establish a “value-based enterprise.” The concept of a value-based enterprise is very definitionally driven, so before attempting to create a value-based enterprise it is imperative to fully understand the regulatory…
In November of 2020 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) finalized value- based exceptions under the Stark Law and the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) finalized value- based safe harbors under the Anti-Kickback Statute, in an effort to accommodate and facilitate the evolution of value-based care arrangements among health care providers. “Value-based care”…