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S 2051 115th Congress Senate

Medicare Care Coordination Improvement Act of 2017

Official title: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to modernize the physician self-referral prohibitions to promote care coordination in the merit-based in… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to modernize the physician self-referral prohibitions to promote care coordination in the merit-based incentive payment system and to facilitate physician practice participation in alternative payment models under the Medicare program, and for other purposes.

Introduced: November 1, 2017 See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Nov 1, 2017
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 Latest action November 1, 2017

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Medicare Care Coordination Improvement Act of 2017

This bill exempts certain alternative payment models under Medicare from the general prohibition on physician self-referrals (also known as the Stark law).


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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2051: Medicare Care Coordination Improvement Act of 2017. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-2051/
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"S. 2051: Medicare Care Coordination Improvement Act of 2017." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-2051/.
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S. 2051, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-2051/.
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