McDermott Seeks Plan to Resolve Self-Disclosure Backlog

Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.), ranking member on the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, has asked the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to submit a written plan for revising its self-referral disclosure protocol, used by various health care providers to self-disclose actual or potential violations of the physician self-referral law. As the lead…