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FCC 54.619
Revised as of October 1, 2014
Goto Year:2013 |
2015
§ 54.619 Audits and recordkeeping.
(a) Health care providers. (1) Health care providers shall maintain for
their purchases of services supported under the Telecommunications
Program documentation for five years from the end of the funding year
sufficient to establish compliance with all rules in this subpart.
Documentation must include, among other things, records of allocations
for consortia and entities that engage in eligible and ineligible
activities, if applicable. Mobile rural health care providers shall
maintain annual logs indicating: The date and locations of each clinic
stop; and the number of patients served at each such clinic stop.
(2) Mobile rural health care providers shall maintain its annual logs
for a period of five years. Mobile rural health care providers shall
make its logs available to the Administrator and the Commission upon
request.
(b) Production of records. Health care providers shall produce such
records at the request of any auditor appointed by the Administrator or
any other state or federal agency with jurisdiction.
(c) Random audits. Health care providers shall be subject to random
compliance audits to ensure that requesters are complying with the
certification requirements set forth in § 54.615(c) and are otherwise
eligible to receive universal service support and that rates charged
comply with the statute and regulations.
(d) Service providers. Service providers shall retain documents related
to the delivery of discounted services under the Telecommunications
Program for at least 5 years after the last day of the delivery of
discounted services. Any other document that demonstrates compliance
with the statutory or regulatory requirements for the rural health care
mechanism shall be retained as well.
[ 68 FR 74503 , Dec. 24, 2003, as amended at 69 FR 12087 , Mar. 15, 2004;
70 FR 6373 , Feb. 7, 2005; 71 FR 13281 , Mar. 15, 2006; 72 FR 54218 ,
Sept. 24, 2007; 78 FR 13984 , Mar. 1, 2013]
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Goto Section: 54.617 | 54.621
Goto Year: 2013 |
2015
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