# Medicare and State Health Care Programs: Fraud and Abuse; Revisions to Safe Harbors Under the Anti-Kickback Statute, and Civil Monetary Penalty Rules Regarding Beneficiary Inducements
> **Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services** · Final rule. · Published 2020-12-02 · Effective 2021-01-19 · 85 FR 77684
## Document
- **Document number:** 2020-26072
- **Category:** medicare
- **Sub-agency:** Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 85 FR 77684
- **CFR reference:** 42 CFR 1001
- **Publication date:** 2020-12-02
- **Effective date:** 2021-01-19
## Abstract

This final rule amends the safe harbors to the Federal anti- kickback statute by adding new safe harbors and modifying existing safe harbors that protect certain payment practices and business arrangements from sanctions under the anti-kickback statute. This rule is issued in conjunction with the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS's) Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care and focuses on care coordination and value-based care. This rule also amends the civil monetary penalty (CMP) rules by codifying a revision to the definition of "remuneration" added by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (Budget Act of 2018).

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/12/02/2020-26072/medicare-and-state-health-care-programs-fraud-and-abuse-revisions-to-safe-harbors-under-the)
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