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 101 STAT. 698

PUBLIC LAW 100-93—AUG. 18, 1987 "(D) any payment practice specified by the Secretary in regulations promulgated pursuant to section 14(a) of the Medicare and Medicaid Patient and Program Protection Act of 1987.".

42 USC 1320a-7 note.

SEC. 15. EFFECTIVE DATES.

(a) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in subsections (b), (c), (d), and (e), the amendments made by this Act shall become effective at the end of the fourteen-day period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall not apply to administrative proceedings commenced before the end of such period. (b) MANDATORY MINIMUM EXCLUSIONS APPLY PROSPECTIVELY.—

Ante, p. 680.

Section 1128(c)(3)(B) of the Social Security Act (as amended by this Act), which requires an exclusion of not less than five years in the case of certain exclusions, shall not apply to exclusions based on convictions occurring before the date of the enactment of this Act. (c) EFFECTIVE DATE FOR CHANGES IN MEDICAID LAW.—(1)

42 USC 1396.

State and local governments.

Claims.

Ante, p. 695.

The

amendments made by sections 5 and 8(f) apply (except as provided under paragraph (2)) to payments under title XIX of the Social Security Act for calendar quarters beginning more than thirty days after the date of the enactment of this Act, without regard to whether or not final regulations to carry out such amendment have been published by such date. (2) In the case of a State plan for medical assistance under title XIX of the Social Security Act which the Secretary of Health and Human Services determines requires State legislation (other than legislation appropriating funds) in order for the plan to meet the additional requirements imposed by the amendments made by this Act, the State plan shall not be regarded as failing to comply with the requirements of such title solely on the basis of its failure to meet these additional requirements before the first day of the first calendar quarter beginning after the close of the first regular session of the State legislature that begins after the date of the enactment of this Act. (3) Subsection (j) of section 1128A of the Social Security Act (as added by section 3(f) of this Act) takes effect on the date of the enactment of this Act. (d) PHYSICIAN MISREPRESENTATIONS.—Clauses (ii) and (iii) of section 1128A(a)(l)(C) of the Social Security Act, as amended by section 3(a)(1) of this Act, apply to claims presented for services performed on or after the effective date specified in subsection (a), without regard to the date the misrepresentation of fact was made. (e) CLARIFICATION OF MEDICAID MORATORIUM.—The amendments made by section 9 of this Act shall apply as though they were originally included in the enactment of section 2373(c) of the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984.

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