CFR > Title 42 - Public Health > CHAPTER IV—CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES > SUBCHAPTER B—MEDICARE PROGRAM (parts 405 to 426) > PART 405—FEDERAL HEALTH INSURANCE FOR THE AGED AND DISABLED > SUBPART X—Rural Health Clinic and Federally Qualified Health Center Services (§405.2400 to §405.2472) > 405.2410—Application of Part B deductible and coinsurance.

405.2410—Application of Part B deductible and coinsurance.

(a) Application of deductible. (1) Medicare payment for rural health clinic services begins only after the beneficiary has incurred the deductible.
(2) Medicare payment for services covered under the Federally qualified health center benefit is not subject to the usual Part B deductible.
(b) Application of coinsurance. (1) The beneficiary is responsible for a coinsurance amount which cannot exceed 20 percent of the clinic's reasonable customary charge for the covered service; and
(2) (i) The beneficiary's deductible and coinsurance liability, with respect to any one item or service furnished by the rural health clinic, may not exceed a reasonable amount customarily charged by the clinic for that particular item or service.
(ii) For any one item or service furnished by a Federally qualified health center, the coinsurance liability may not exceed 20 percent of a reasonable amount customarily charged by the center for that particular item or service.
[71 FR 55345, Sept. 22, 2006]