US Congress House Bill 776 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 23-3)
Status: Introduced on February 5 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-02-27 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

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.

Stark Administrative Simplification Act of 2015

Rep. Charles Boustany [R-LA]	Rep. Ron Kind [D-WI]	Rep. Michael Burgess [R-TX]	Sen. Todd Young [R-IN]
Rep. Brett Guthrie [R-KY]	Rep. Mike Pompeo [R-KS]	Rep. Marc Veasey [D-TX]	Rep. Susan Brooks [R-IN]
Rep. Larry Bucshon [R-IN]	Rep. Lynn Jenkins [R-KS]	Rep. Devin Nunes [R-CA]	Rep. Rodney Davis [R-IL]
Rep. John Shimkus [R-IL]	Rep. Bill Huizenga [R-MI]	Rep. Aaron Schock [R-IL]	Rep. Todd Rokita [R-IN]
Rep. Jackie Walorski [R-IN]	Rep. Luke Messer [R-IN]	Rep. Joseph Heck [R-NV]	Rep. Richard Hanna [R-NY]
Rep. Bill Johnson [R-OH]	Rep. Jason Chaffetz [R-UT]	Rep. Renee Ellmers [R-NC]	Rep. David Valadao [R-CA]
Rep. Thomas Rooney [R-FL]	Rep. Jim Cooper [D-TN]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-27	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2015-02-06	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2015-02-05	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2015-02-05	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2015-02-05	House	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.
2015-02-05	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/776/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr776/BILLS-114hr776ih.pdf