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CMS Pub. 100-04, ch. 30, § 150.5.5
Additional Knowledge Standards for All Medical Equipment
and Supplies Denials
(Rev. 1587, Issued: 09-05-08, Effective: 03-03-08, Implementation: 03-01-09)
The contractor may make a determination, as provided for in Section I.2.D.2.b. imputing
a lack of knowledge to a supplier, on the basis that the supplier did not know and could
not reasonably have been expected to know that Medicare would not pay, if the supplier
did not know and could not reasonably have been expected to know that a purchase (or
rental) of medical equipment or supplies involved a Medicare beneficiary.
History
(Rev. 1587, Issued: 09-05-08, Effective: 03-03-08, Implementation: 03-01-09)
Provenance
- Source
- cms.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-25
- Edition
- iom-2026-08-25
- Content hash
d2beb098ab77f8bdf23068acf0fcc7f0f6b4783904605f0679df4db343e7c47e
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