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Title 42Public HealthPart / Section
Chapter IVCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services400 – 699
Subchapter BMedicare Program405 – 429
Part 424Conditions for Medicare Payment424.1 – 424.575
Subpart PRequirements for Establishing and Maintaining Medicare Billing Privileges424.500 – 424.575
§ 424.500Scope.
§ 424.502Definitions.
§ 424.505Basic enrollment requirement.
§ 424.506National Provider Identifier (NPI) on all enrollment applications and claims.
§ 424.507Ordering covered items and services for Medicare beneficiaries.
§ 424.510Requirements for enrolling in the Medicare program.
§ 424.514Application fee.
§ 424.515Requirements for reporting changes and updates to, and the periodic revalidation of Medicare enrollment information.
§ 424.516Additional provider and supplier requirements for enrolling and maintaining active enrollment status in the Medicare program.
§ 424.517Onsite review.
§ 424.518Screening levels for Medicare providers and suppliers.
§ 424.519Disclosure of affiliations.
§ 424.520Effective date of Medicare billing privileges.
§ 424.521Request for payment by certain provider and supplier types.
§ 424.522Additional effective dates.
§ 424.525Rejection of a provider's or supplier's application for Medicare enrollment.
§ 424.526Return of a provider's or supplier's enrollment application.
§ 424.527Provisional period of enhanced oversight.
§ 424.530Denial of enrollment in the Medicare program.
§ 424.535Revocation of enrollment in the Medicare program.
§ 424.540Deactivation of Medicare billing privileges.
§ 424.541Stay of enrollment.
§ 424.542Prohibition on ordering, certifying, referring, or prescribing based on felony conviction.
§ 424.545Provider and supplier appeal rights.
§ 424.546Deactivation rebuttals.
§ 424.547Deactivation based on ordering, certifying, or referring services and items.
§ 424.550Prohibitions on the sale or transfer of billing privileges.
§ 424.551DMEPOS supplier changes in majority ownership.
§ 424.555Payment liability.
§ 424.565Overpayment.
§ 424.570Moratoria on newly enrolling Medicare providers and suppliers.
§ 424.575Rural emergency hospitals.