United StatesOfficials could base federal health exclusions on roles held when sanctions occurred
Federal officials could exclude certain entities or people based on control or officer ties that existed when a related conviction, civil fine, or exclusion occurred.
What it does
If the law’s other requirements are met, an entity could face exclusion from federal health care programs based on a person’s control or officer role when that person was convicted, fined, or excluded.
If the law’s other requirements are met, a person could face exclusion from federal health care programs for controlling an entity or serving as its officer when that entity was convicted or excluded.
Argument forLooking at ties when a sanction occurred could keep entities or people from avoiding exclusion by cutting those ties afterward.
Argument againstEntities or people with no current tie could still face exclusion because officials would use their relationship when the sanction occurred.
More detail
Federal officials could exclude an entity from federal health care programs based on another person’s control or officer role. This applies when the person directly or indirectly controlled the entity or served as its officer. The person’s conviction, civil fine, or exclusion must meet the other requirements in the federal exclusion law. Officials would measure the person’s connection at the time of that conviction, fine, or exclusion.
Federal officials could exclude a person from federal health care programs based on the person’s relationship to an entity. This applies when the person directly or indirectly controlled the entity or served as its officer. Both the entity’s conviction or exclusion and the person’s connection to it must meet the other requirements in the federal exclusion law. Officials would measure the person’s role at the time of the entity’s conviction or exclusion.
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- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
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History
- 2026
- Oct 1Introduced in HouseLatest
- Oct 1Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.Introduced
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