Question

What problems do the Stark laws address, and how do they deal with this problem?

Answer 1

The Stark law deals with thr problems that are caused by physicians who deal with patients having medicare and medicaid services. They refer these patients to a designated health service, for specific services, in which they will be having financial relationships.

In order to avoid this problem, they have come up with 20 detailed and complicated exceptions in their statutes which they have mandatory for all the physicians to follow. They have made the starues really complicated in order to ensure that no physician misleads the medicare and medicaid patients.