Tightening the Stark In-Office Services Exception

The president’s budget request for fiscal year 2014 proposes to save $6.1 billion by excluding certain services, but not anatomic pathology, from the in-office ancillary services (IOAS) exception to the Stark physician self-referral law.In response, the Alliance for Integrity in Medicare (AIM) advocates increased savings by removing anatomic pathology services from the exception. And it…