Physician self referral, The Stark Law, Are Doctors now owning you?

Physician self referral, The Stark Law, Are Doctors now owning you?

mollie

11/22/2004

The merger of the largest Orthopaedic practice in the US will take place , the first of next year. This practice has also opened it's own O and P facility, Back to Action. This opening threatens the livelyhood of seven O andP practices in Charlotte, NC. Is this happening in your community? How will you combat the emergence of your future new employer? The allowance of physician self referral will threaten to take away the prospect for O and P providers to own and run their own business. We need to combat the Stark Law. Write your congress person, contact AOPA, and most importantly, if the Ortho doc's do not have practitioners to work for them, then their O and P practices cannot get off the ground. Practitioners should be discouraged from working for Doctor owned practices ( don't let them sell out). Thanks, Martha E. Matthews, CO