On the recordMarch 5, 2008
I've been trying to explain that the reason that the money is saved pursuant to this provision is because physician self- referrals inherently are not a good thing. We are trying to discourage it as much as possible and not having it be the case in the future. Now there are some hospitals that, as you said, historically had this configuration. But we don't want to encourage it. We want to discourage it. That's why we're saying that we'll have a standard with the 40 percent and the 2 percent and we'll even allow some of them to grow if they meet certain standards. But we're not looking to have this continue because it inherently is not a good thing.
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govinfo.gov
