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Stark Administrative Simplification Act of 2015

Introduced: February 5, 2015 See on congress.gov
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Feb 27, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb 6, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb 5, 2015
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Feb 5, 2015
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Stark Administrative Simplification Act of 2015

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to prescribe a single civil monetary penalty as an alternative sanction to those already established for compensation arrangements between a physician (or an immediate family member) and a person or entity that is in violation of the limitation on certain physician referrals (Stark Law) solely due to technical noncompliance.

(The Stark law, or Stark Rule, prohibits physician referrals of certain health services for Medicare and Medicaid patients to a specified entity if the physician, or an immediate family member, has a financial relationship with that entity.)

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to accept the voluntary disclosure of a technically noncomplaint compensation arrangement by a person or entity in violation of the Stark Law under certain circumstances.

What's happening now February 27, 2015

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 5
All 5 Democratic 1 Republican 4