Anti-kickback rules place physicians in unsettled waters
Carder, E.B.; Hoffman, R.B.
Pennsylvania Medicine 94(9): 30-33
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0031-4595 PMID: 1945445 Document Number: 374209
The Resource-based Relative value scale, RBRVS, the sweeping reform in how physicians will be paid, is not the only change being made in Medicare. The federal government has just issued new rules and a new "Fraud Alert" interpreting Medicare's anti-kickback statute, focusing on the business relationships between medical providers and suppliers.