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Long Term Care & Senior Living Blog
January 15, 2014

OIG, CMS release Final Rule for the Stark Exception, Anti-Kickback Safe Harbor for Electronic Health Records (EHR) Donation

While the donation of a valuable item such as an EHR program would raise fraud and abuse concerns, exemptions under Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Safe Harbor were designed to encourage the widespread implementation of EHR and to let smaller providers accept gifts of EHR software without violating the law or statute.