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CMS Issues Guidance on Relocation of Physician-Owned Hospitals

[03/12/25]

Posted on March 12, 2025 in Health Law News

Published by: Hall Render

Last month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a rare Stark Law Advisory Opinion, concluding that a physician-owned hospital (“Hospital”) seeking to relocate eight miles from its current location and add an emergency department would continue to satisfy the Stark Law’s Whole Hospital Exception (“Exception”). This is one of several CMS... READ MORE

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