Each year around April or May, the Trustees of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds release their accounting of the current, short-term (10-years), and long-term (75-years) projections of revenues and expenditures for the world’s largest entitlement programs.
With the first quarter behind us, we want to share some insights after talking with several healthcare investors since the beginning of the year. Here are some commonalities:
Effective January 1, 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented major changes to the Stark Law regulations. The Stark Law generally prohibits physicians with a financial relationship with an entity from referring patients to their practice for designated health services (DHS) payable by Medicare or Medicaid unless the financial arrangement is structured to fit within a regulatory exception.