Providing Value-Added Services to Referral Sources Without Crossing the Line

Times are hard, and you need to provide better service than your competitors to obtain referrals. The problem is that for health care providers, your efforts to beat competitors can’t run afoul of federal guidelines including the federal physician self-referral statute (“Stark”), the federal anti-kickback statute (“AKS”), and the federal beneficiary inducement statute (“inducement statute”). This program will discuss how an infusion provider, specialty pharmacy, and or compounding pharmacy can provide value-added services to patients without violating these statutes. The program will present examples of value-added services that are legally acceptable, and those that should be avoided.