{"id":43,"date":"2010-09-23T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/?p=43"},"modified":"2014-09-10T12:07:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T16:07:40","slug":"alert-cmss-stark-law-self-referral-disclosure-protocol-raises-tough-decisions-for-healthcare-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/2010\/09\/23\/alert-cmss-stark-law-self-referral-disclosure-protocol-raises-tough-decisions-for-healthcare-providers\/","title":{"rendered":"Alert: CMS&#8217;s Stark Law Self-Referral Disclosure Protocol Raises Tough Decisions for Healthcare Providers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 23, 2010, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a disclosure protocol pertaining to Stark Law self-referrals in accordance with Section 6409 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The purpose of the Medicare self-referral disclosure protocol (SRDP) is to create a mechanism that affords both health care providers and suppliers the opportunity to disclose either real or potential violations of the Stark law. In the event of a violation, a provider&#8217;s or supplier&#8217;s submission of this information to CMS may potentially result in a reduction in the amount due for the self-referral violations. For additional information regarding the SRDP, please go to the following website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cms.gov\/PhysicianSelfReferral\/65_Self_Referral_Disclosure_Protocol.asp\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.cms.gov\/PhysicianSelfReferral\/65_Self_Referral_Disclosure_Protocol.asp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 23, 2010, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a disclosure protocol pertaining to Stark Law self-referrals in accordance with Section 6409 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The purpose of the Medicare self-referral disclosure protocol (SRDP) is to create a mechanism that affords both health care providers &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/2010\/09\/23\/alert-cmss-stark-law-self-referral-disclosure-protocol-raises-tough-decisions-for-healthcare-providers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alert: CMS&#8217;s Stark Law Self-Referral Disclosure Protocol Raises Tough Decisions for Healthcare Providers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,31,33,9,10,32,24,30],"ppma_author":[906],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-reform","tag-cms","tag-hospitals-reform-updates","tag-long-term-care-reform-updates","tag-medicaid","tag-medicare","tag-physicians-reform-updates","tag-ppaca","tag-stark"],"authors":[{"term_id":906,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}