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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Most health care providers have at least a basic understanding of the Anti-Kickback Statute. This federal law prohibits providers from offering, paying, soliciting, or accepting any form of “remuneration” for patient referrals paid with funds received from government health care benefit programs. Most physicians are aware of the Stark Law as well a federal law that imposes civil fines for doctors who engaging in unlawful “self-referrals” involving Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. However, there is another federal law that prohibits unlawful referral-related compensation and that is far less well-known in the health care sector. This is the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act (EKRA), which was enacted in 2018 as part of the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act (SUPPORT Act).

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