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The Anti-Kickback Statute [1] (AKS) is an American federal law prohibiting financial payments or incentives for referring patients or generating federal healthcare business. . The law, codified at 42 U.S. Code § 1320a–7b(b), [2] imposes criminal and, particularly in association with the federal False Claims Act, civil liability on those who knowingly and willfully offer, solicit, receive ...
Stark Law is a set of United States federal laws that prohibit physician self-referral, specifically a referral by a physician of a Medicare or Medicaid patient to an entity for the provision of designated health services ("DHS") if the physician (or an immediate family member) has a financial relationship with that entity.
2003: The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (also known as the Medicare Modernization Act or MMA) introduced supplementary optional coverage within Medicare for self-administered prescription drugs and as the name suggests also changed the other three existing Parts of Medicare law.
"It's a stark reminder that you don't have to be Texas or a red state to be a place where reproductive healthcare is under attack," Bonta said. "It can happen right here in California."
As of 2015, HHS-OIG had targeted hospitals and healthcare systems for Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute violations pertaining to the management of physician compensation arrangements. [79] In 2015, a fraud alert was issued to publicize the OIG's intent to further regulate such non-compliance. [ 80 ]
Medicare doesn’t pay for long-term care unless skilled nursing services are required and even then it’s only for 100 days. Medicaid is the primary source of coverage for long-term care ...
In the first two weeks of October, Donald Trump and his allies directed about a third of all their spending on broadcast TV advertisements to ads about transgender health care, a significant ...
Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 30, 1965 The Social Security Amendments of 1965 , Pub. L. 89–97 , 79 Stat. 286 , enacted July 30, 1965 , was legislation in the United States whose most important provisions resulted in creation of two programs: Medicare and Medicaid .