A home health provider was expecting the COVID pandemic to increase its revenues however, budgets have not
Question:
A home health provider was expecting the COVID pandemic to increase its revenues however, budgets have not gone to plan. The home health agency is underwater and it needs to shore up referrals for its services. It decides to compensate physicians who refer fifty or more Medicare beneficiaries to the home health provider in the form of providing them "Medical Directorships" with annual salaries of $100,000.00 for five hours of work a year (not FMV). Does this arrangement raise any Stark or AKS issues?
A) It raises a Stark issue, not an AKS issue.
B) It raises an AKS issue, not a Stark issue.
C) It raises both a Stark and an AKS issue.
D) These arrangements both appear compliant.
Managerial accounting
ISBN: 978-0471467854
1st edition
Authors: ramji balakrishnan, k. s i varamakrishnan, Geoffrey b. sprin