On October 17, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) formally published its proposed rule (PSR Rule) to update exceptions to the Physician Self-Referral Law (PSR Law, also known as the Stark Law). For our initial overview of the PSR Rule (and of the Office of Inspector General’s corresponding proposal to update the Anti-Kickback Statute) see here. The PSR Rule contains a number of important proposals to update the PSR Law, including putting forward a definition of the term “commercially reasonable” and revising the definition of “fair market value.”  These terms and concepts are essential to PSR Law compliance, and constitute key elements of a number of exceptions to the PSR Law, including for space and equipment leases, employment arrangements, and isolated financial transactions.
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