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CMS-1403-FC
● Posting IDTF standards as required under
§410.33(g)(9).
● Maintaining a visible sign posting business hours
as required under §410.33(g)(14)(ii).
● Separately enrolling each practice location as
required under §410.33(g)(15)(i).
Accordingly, we proposed to add §410.33(j) which
states that, “A physician or NPP organization (as defined
in §424.502) furnishing diagnostic testing services, except
diagnostic mammography services: (1) must enroll as an
independent diagnostic testing facility for each practice
location furnishing these services; and (2) is subject to
the provisions found in §410.33, except for §410.33(g)(6),
§410.33(g)(8), §410.33(g)(9), §410.33(g)(14)(ii), and
§410.33(g)(15)(i). As discussed in section II.J. of this
preamble, we proposed to define a "physician or
nonphysician practitioner organization" as any physician or
NPP entity that enrolls in the Medicare program as a sole
proprietorship or organizational entity such as a clinic or
group practice.
We maintained that this enrollment requirement is
necessary to ensure that beneficiaries are receiving the
quality of care that can only be administered by
appropriately licensed or credentialed nonphysician
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