definiens: means Laws relating : ( a ) to Government Health Care Programs, including the federalMedicare statute ( Title XVIII of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § § 1395 - 1395hhh, including the amendmentsimplemented by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 and the MedicareImprovements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 ), the federal Medicaid statute ( Title XIX of the Social Security Act, 42U.S.C. § § 1396 - 1396v ), the Veterans Health Care Act of 1992 and the federal TRICARE statute ( 10 U.S.C. § 1071 et seq.)and federal Laws pertaining to the Federal Employee Health Beneﬁt Program, ( b ) Private Health Care Plans, ( c ) privacy andconﬁdentiality of patient health information and human biological materials, including, in the United States, HIPAA ( theHealth Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economicand Clinical Health Act, and any regulations promulgated thereunder ), ( d ) fraud and abuse, self - referral, anti - kickback, andfalse claims laws, including the federal Anti - Kickback Statute ( 42 U.S.C. § 1320a- 7b(b ) ), the federal Physician Self - Referral(Stark ) Law ( 42 U.S.C. § 1395nn ), the civil False Claims Act ( 31 U.S.C. § 3729 et seq . ), the criminal False Claims15 * * * Certain information has been excluded from this agreement because it is both ( i ) not material and ( ii ) would be competitively harmful if publiclydisclosed