Comparison Chart of Stark Exceptions and Anti-Kickback Safe Harbors
These charts have been updated to reflect the changes to the Stark Law or Anti-Kickback Statute that were made final in November 2020, and became effective January 19, 2021. You also can review all the changes in this publication.
Note that while we have made every effort to keep these charts accurate and timely, you should never rely on them entirely without also checking the actual regulatory language.
- Academic Medical Centers
- Ambulance Replenishing
- Ambulatory Surgery Centers
- Assistance to Compensate a Nonphysician Practitioner
- Certain Arrangements With Hospitals
- Charitable Donations by a Physician
- CMS Sponsored Model Arrangements and Patient Incentives
- Community-Wide Health Information Systems
- Cooperative Hospital Service Organizations
- Compliance Training
- Cybersecurity
- Discounts
- Electronic Health Records Items and Services
- Electronic Prescribing Items and Services
- Employment Relationships
- EPO and Other Dialysis-Related Drugs
- Eyeglasses and Contact Lens Following Cataract Surgery
- Fair Market Value Compensation
- Federally Qualified Health Centers
- Group Practice Arrangements With a Hospital
- Group Purchasing Organizations
- Implants in an ASC
- Increased Coverage, Reduced Cost-Sharing Amounts, or Reduced Premium Amounts Offered by Health Plans
- Indirect Compensation Arrangements
- In-Office Ancillary Services
- Intra-Family Rural Referrals
- Investment Interests
- Isolated Transactions
- Limited Remuneration to a Physician
- Local Transportation
- Medical Staff Incidental Benefits
- Non-Monetary Compensation
- Obstetrical Malpractice Insurance Subsidies
- Patient Engagement and Support and CMS Sponsored Models
- Payments by a Physician
- Personal Service Arrangements
- Physician Services
- Physician/Practitioner Recruitment
- Preventive Screening Tests, Immunizations, and Vaccines
- Price Reductions Offered by Contractors With Substantial Financial Risk to Managed Care Organizations
- Price Reductions Offered to Eligible Managed Care Organizations
- Price Reductions Offered to Health Plans
- Professional Courtesy
- Referral Agreements for Specialty Services
- Referral Services
- Rental of Office Space and Equipment
- Retention Payments in Underserved Areas
- Risk Sharing Agreements
- Sale of Practice
- Services Furnished by an Organization to Enrollees
- Timeshare Arrangements
- Value-Based Arrangements
- Value-Based Arrangements with Meaningful/Substantial Downside Risk
- Value-Based Arrangements with Full Financial Risk
- Waiver of Coinsurance and Deductibles
- Warranties