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<title>Stark Administrative Simplification Act of 2018</title>
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<action-date>2018-06-12</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in Senate</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p><strong>Stark Administrative Simplification Act of </strong><b>2018</b></p> <p>This bill establishes alternative protocols and sanctions for inadvertent technical noncompliance with the Stark Rule against self-referral under Medicare. "Technical noncompliance" means, with respect to a compensation arrangement, that: (1) the agreement is not signed by one or more parties to the arrangement, (2) the arrangement was a holdover arrangement for a period longer than is allowed by the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services, or (3) documentation of the arrangement&nbsp;contains specified identifying information&nbsp;but is otherwise insufficient to satisfy the writing requirement of an applicable exception. </p>]]></summary-text>
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