Thursday, January 31, 2019

Coordination of Care or Conflict of Interest? Exempting ACOs from the Stark Law

 2019 Jan 31;380(5):410-411. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp1811304.

Coordination of Care or Conflict of Interest? Exempting ACOs from the Stark Law.

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From the Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, and the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine (G.P.K.), and the Department of Health Care Management, Wharton School (M.V.P.), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Care coordination has become a central theme of new payment and delivery systems. There is, however, at least one downside to care coordination arrangements: they clash with existing regulations on financial conflicts of interest in medicine.

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