What is a private-pay-only senior placement service?
A senior placement service that only places residents who pay privately, not via Medicare or Medicaid. This is the federal Anti-Kickback Statute safe harbor: it removes AKS risk from referral fees because AKS only governs federally-funded healthcare referrals.
The federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) prohibits payments for referrals of Medicare or Medicaid beneficiaries. Senior placement services that operate on commission can run into AKS exposure if they refer Medicare/Medicaid residents. The clean legal model is private-pay-only: the service contracts with each community to refer only private-pay residents, which removes the AKS vector entirely. SeniorIQ operates exclusively under private-pay-only contracts. If a Houston family submits an intake for a Medicare/Medicaid placement, we route them to an appropriate licensed agency that handles those payment types.
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