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Medicare and State health care programs: fraud and abuse; OIG anti-kickback provisions--HHS. Final rule.

This final rule implements section 14 of Public Law 100-93, the Medicare and Medicaid Patient and Program Protection Act of 1987, by specifying various payment practices which, although potentially capable of inducing referrals of business under Medicare or a State health care program, will be protected from criminal prosecution or civil sanctions under the anti-kickback provisions of the statute.

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Medicare and Social Security: fraud and abuse; civil money penalties for misuse of certain terms, symbols and emblems--HHS. Final rule.

This final rule implements section 428(a) of Public Law 100-360 which authorizes the imposition of civil money penalties for the use--in advertising, solicitations or other communications--of certain words, letters, symbols or emblems associated with the Department of Health and Human Services' Social Security and Medicare programs in a manner that the user knows, or should know, would convey a false impression that (1) the communicated item was approved, endorsed or authorized by the Department or its programs, or (2) the responsible person or organization has some connection with, or authorization from, the Department or these programs. This rulemaking is designed to assist in protecting citizens from misrepresentations concerning the services offered and programs administered by the Social Security Administration and the Health Care Financing Administration.

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Special report on reimbursement. Final Medicare fraud and abuse safe harbors are published.

There has been great concern in the health care industry that business arrangements that do not comply with the Safe Harbors will automatically be deemed illegal. HHS has confirmed that this is not so; the commentary to the Regulations expressly states that "The failure of a particular business arrangement to comply with these provisions does not determine whether or not the arrangement violates the statute because...this regulation does not make conduct illegal. Any conduct that could be construed to be illegal after the promulgation of this rule would have been illegal at any time since the current law was enacted in 1977....This regulation is intended to provide a formula for avoiding risk in the future." 56 Fed. Reg. at 35955. In the final analysis, the majority of transactions will fall outside the Safe Harbors and thus will continue to be judged by the standards established by the Medicare antifraud statute enacted 14 years ago. Under these standards, as HHS states, "the degree of the risk [in any particular transaction] depends on an evaluation of the many factors which are part of the decision-making process regarding case selection for investigation and prosecution." Id. at 35954. Providers that are mindful of these criteria should therefore still be able to accomplish, with relative safety, transactions that do not qualify for Safe Harbor protection.

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