By Howard B. Fleishon, MD, MMM
"Organized radiology has been devoted to the self-referral issue for more than a decade. Early literature that documented increased physician referral rates for diagnostic imaging when there is a financial incentive led to the Stark laws in the 1990s. Entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and some medical specialties, however, have exploited opportunities either in the non-Medicare population or by taking advantage of safe harbors in the law, the largest of these being the in-office exemption."
