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href="/web/20140705072948/https://oig.hhs.gov/authorities/docs/2013/EHR_Safe_Harbor_Proposed_Rule.pdf">Proposed Rule: Medicare and State Health Care Programs: Fraud and Abuse; Electronic Health Records Safe Harbor Under the Anti-Kickback Statute</a> (78 Fed. 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Reg. 45110; August 8, 2006)</dd> <dd><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140705072948/http://www.cms.hhs.gov/PhysicianSelfReferral/Downloads/CMS-1303-F.pdf" target="_blank">Final Rule: CMS Physician Self-Referral Electronic Prescribing and Electronic Health Records Exceptions</a> (71 Fed. Reg. 45140; August 8, 2006)</dd> </dl> <a class="top" href="#top">Top</a><div class="contentSeparator"></div> <p><a name="2005"></a> <h2>2005</h2> <dl> <dt>10-11-2005</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20140705072948/https://oig.hhs.gov/authorities/docs/05/101105e-prescribingPR.pdf">Proposed Rule: Safe Harbor for Certain Electronic Prescribing Arrangements Under the Anti-Kickback Statute</a> (70 Fed. Reg. 59015; October 11, 2005)</dd> <dt>07-01-2005</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20140705072948/https://oig.hhs.gov/authorities/docs/05/070105NPRM-FQHC.pdf" target="_blank">Proposed Rule: Safe Harbor for Federally Qualified Health Centers Under the Anti-Kickback Statute</a> (70 Fed. 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