Medicare Physician Self-Referral Disclosure Protocol: Will The Truth Set You Free?

In Sep 23, 2010, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released the much anticipated Medicare physician self-referral disclosure protocol (SRDP), established pursuant to Section 6409 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. The SRDP, while an important step in encouragin...

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Published inJournal of Health Care Compliance Vol. 13; no. 1; p. 59
Main Author McGovern, Michelle C Gabriel
Format Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Frederick Aspen Publishers, Inc 01.01.2011
Subjects
Compliance
Cooperation
Disclosure
Financial analysis
Incentives
Liability
Medicaid
Medical referrals
Medicare
Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act 2010-US
Physicians
Protocol
Provisions
Violations
United States > US
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Summary:In Sep 23, 2010, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released the much anticipated Medicare physician self-referral disclosure protocol (SRDP), established pursuant to Section 6409 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. The SRDP, while an important step in encouraging self-disclosure of Stark law violations, has been critiqued by some members of the health care community for offering few, if any, real incentives to self-disclose. The OIG self-disclosure protocol was created in 1998 to encourage health care providers to self-police by offering specific steps for cooperation with the OIG after discovery of a compliance issue. Because of the program's ultimate confines -- mainly, its poor job of incentivizing self-disclosure -- the value of the SRDP very much remains to be seen.
ISSN:1520-8303