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believe that requiring mobile IDTFs to enroll in order to
furnish services to Medicare beneficiaries is consistent
with the existing enrollment regulation found at §424.505
which states that to receive payment for covered Medicare
items or services from either Medicare or a Medicare
beneficiary, a provider or supplier must be enrolled in the
Medicare program. Moreover, by requiring mobile IDTFs to
enroll in order to furnish services to Medicare
beneficiaries, the Medicare contractor will be able to
certify that mobile IDTFs are in compliance with the
requirements for enrolling and maintaining enrollment set
forth at §424.520. Finally, the owner of a mobile IDTF is
responsible for ensuring that the mobile IDTF meets all
applicable regulatory requirements to maintain their
enrollment in the Medicare program.
In addition, we are finalizing the provision at
§410.33(g)(17) requiring that mobile diagnostic services
bill for the mobile diagnostic services that they furnish,
unless the mobile diagnostic service is part of a hospital
service and furnished under arrangement with that hospital
as described in section 1862(a)(14)of the Act and
§482.12(e). To ensure that IDTFs are actually furnishing
services under arrangement with a hospital, we will require
that mobile IDTFs provide documentation of the arrangement
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