# Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Physicians' Referrals to Health Care Entities With Which They Have Financial Relationships: Extension of Partial Delay of Effective Date
> **Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services** · Final rule; extension of partial delay in effective date. · Published 2002-11-22 · Effective 2001-01-04 · 67 FR 70322
## Document
- **Document number:** 02-29797
- **Category:** medicare
- **Sub-agency:** Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 67 FR 70322
- **CFR reference:** 42 CFR 411
- **Publication date:** 2002-11-22
- **Effective date:** 2001-01-04
- **HHS docket:** CMS-1809-F2
## Abstract

This final rule further delays for 6 months, until July 7, 2003, the effective date of the last sentence of 42 CFR 411.354(d)(1). Section 411.354(d)(1) was promulgated in the final rule entitled "Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Physicians' Referrals to Health Care Entities With Which They Have Financial Relationships," published in the Federal Register on January 4, 2001 (66 FR 856). A 1-year delay of the effective date of the last sentence in Sec. 411.354(d)(1) was published in the Federal Register on December 3, 2001 (66 FR 60154). This extension of the 1-year delay in the effective date of that sentence will give us additional time to reconsider the definition of compensation that is "set in advance" as it relates to percentage compensation methodologies in order to avoid unnecessarily disrupting existing contractual arrangements for physician services. Accordingly, the last sentence of Sec. 411.354(d)(1), which would have become effective January 6, 2003, will not become effective until July 7, 2003. We expect a future final rule with comment period, entitled "Medicare Program; Physicians' Referrals to Health Care Entities With Which They Have Financial Relationships" (Phase II), to further address this issue prior to this effective date.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2002/11/22/02-29797/medicare-and-medicaid-programs-physicians-referrals-to-health-care-entities-with-which-they-have)
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