The legislation would make permanent a CMS waiver instituted during the COVID-19 public health emergency that allowed Medicare patients to receive medications by mail or allow caregivers and family members to get medications for them, Policy & Medicine reported July 9.
With the sunsetting of the waiver, physicians face a Stark violation if they continue to deliver drugs to their patients or allow someone other than a patient to pick up drugs, according to the report.
The legislation was introduced by Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Chuck Fleischmann, Donald Davis, Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Troy Balderson.
A House committee in June unanimously advanced legislation that would make permanent an in-office ancillary services exception to Stark law for drugs provided under Medicare.
The legislation would make permanent a CMS waiver instituted during the COVID-19 public health emergency that allowed Medicare patients to receive medications by mail or allow caregivers and family members to get medications for them, Policy & Medicine reported July 9.
With the sunsetting of the waiver, physicians face a Stark violation if they continue to deliver drugs to their patients or allow someone other than a patient to pick up drugs, according to the report.
The legislation was introduced by Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Chuck Fleischmann, Donald Davis, Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Troy Balderson.
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