Medicare-Medicaid Anti-Fraud and Abuse Amendments

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Medicare-Medicaid Anti-Fraud and Abuse Amendments - Amends provisions of Title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act which require that Medicare payments be made directly to the physician or other person providing the service involved. Allows payment in accordance with an assignment from the person or institution providing the care or service involved if such assignment is made to a governmental agency or entity or is established by the order of a court of competent jurisdiction or to an agent of such person or institution if the agent does so pursuant to an agency agreement under which the compensation to be paid to the agent for his services or in connection with the billing or collection of payments due such person or institution under the plan is unrelated to the amount of such payments or the billings thereof, and is not dependent upon the actual collection of any such payment. States that the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall by regulation (or by contract provision) provide that any entity (other than a public agency) which is a provider or supplier that furnishes, or arranges for the furnishing of, items or services with respect to which payment is clai…