Anthony Law
Affordable Care Act could lead to more physician practice M&A
Changes to the health care profession this year as a result of the Affordable Care Act may lead to more mergers of physician practices. The Stark Law, which was put in place to prevent physicians from referring patients to facilities from which they would personally benefit, prohibits the inclusion of the value of incidental patient referrals when valuing a practice for the purpose of a sale to a hospital or other medical facility.