The Center fosters informed dialogue among policymakers, consumer advocates, the medical profession, and business in the seek for options to the ethical, legal, and social questions presented in the well being and pharmaceutical area. The Stark Law was enacted in an effort to “disconnect a physician’s health care choice making from his or her monetary interests in other well being care providers,” with the ultimate aim of guaranteeing that patients have been presented with the most effective worth and quality choices. In the time since the bill’s passage in 1989, industry stakeholders have realized that the Stark Law’s broad conception of a “financial relationship” and slim, enumerated exceptions has the undesired impact of limiting innovative, high-value, cost-effective health care preparations.