What does DHS stand for?

Designated Health Service(s)

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Financial relationships," as defined in the law, are interpreted as either (1) ownerships by physician and/or physician's family of the healthcare entity and/or the designated health service, or (2) an arrangement whereby the skilled nursing facility compensates a physician for services, unless that compensation meets specific criteria.

Beware of Stark Law 'self-dealing': savvy nursing facility ...

Designated health services generally include home health, home medical equipment, infusion services, and outpatient hospital services, among others.

Determining fair market value of consulting services

Legal issues Anti-kickback statutes and Stark regulations prohibit physicians from referring Medicare or Medicaid patients for the delivery of a range of designated health services to entities with which they have a financial relationship.

Reviewing your physician compensation plan

Under the Stark law, physicians are civilly, not criminally, liable for any disallowed relationship where there have been referrals for designated health services, even if they didn't intend to do anything wrong (see Table p.

Navigating your way through fraud and abuse legislation

Similarly, profit-sharing formulas that include profits generated from billings for designated health services also risk violating these statutes.

Aligning incentives for success

Last fall, a group of physicians and their physician-owned cardiac catheterization laboratories challenged CMS's Stark Law revision of the regulatory definition of "entity" furnishing designated health services ("DHS Entity").

Health Law Advisory: Federal Court Holds That It Lacks Jurisdiction ...

Nevertheless, according to HCFA, "Even though we will cover the designated health services under a separate proposed rule, this final rule with comment will affect how we review referrals involving any of the designated health services.

HCFA issues final Stark I rules

Rather, in such structures, the joint venture was selling a service to the hospital and only the hospital was the provider of the designated health service to patients.

Oncology - 2009 Outlook