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[CITE: 42USC1320c-11]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                       CHAPTER 7--SOCIAL SECURITY
 
   SUBCHAPTER XI--GENERAL PROVISIONS, PEER REVIEW, AND ADMINISTRATIVE 
                             SIMPLIFICATION
 
 Part B--Peer Review of Utilization and Quality of Health Care Services
 
Sec. 1320c-11. Exemptions for religious nonmedical health care 
        institutions
        
    The provisions of this part shall not apply with respect to a 
religious nonmedical health care institution (as defined in section 
1395x(ss)(1) of this title).

(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title XI, Sec. 1162, as added Pub. L. 97-248, 
title I, Sec. 143, Sept. 3, 1982, 96 Stat. 393; amended Pub. L. 105-33, 
title IV, Sec. 4454(c)(2), Aug. 5, 1997, 111 Stat. 431.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 1320c-11, act Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title XI, 
Sec. 1162, as added Oct. 30, 1972, Pub. L. 92-603, title II, 
Sec. 249F(b), 86 Stat. 1440; amended Dec. 5, 1980, Pub. L. 96-499, title 
IX, Secs. 922(a), 927(b), 94 Stat. 2628, 2630; Aug. 13, 1981, 97-35, 
title XXI, Sec. 2113(h), 95 Stat. 795, related to Statewide Professional 
Standards Review Councils, prior to the general revision of this part by 
Pub. L. 97-248.


                               Amendments

    1997--Pub. L. 105-33 substituted ``Exemptions for religious 
nonmedical health care institutions'' for ``Exemptions of Christian 
Science sanatoriums'' in section catchline and substituted ``religious 
nonmedical health care institution (as defined in section 1395x(ss)(1) 
of this title)'' for ``Christian Science sanatorium operated, or listed 
and certified, by the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, 
Massachusetts'' in text.


                    Effective Date of 1997 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 105-33 effective Aug. 5, 1997, and applicable 
to items and services furnished on or after such date, with provision 
that Secretary of Health and Human Services issue regulations to carry 
out such amendment by not later than July 1, 1998, see section 4454(d) 
of Pub. L. 105-33, set out as an Effective Date note under section 
1395i-5 of this title.
