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FCC 54.619
Revised as of October 2, 2015
Goto Year:2014 |
2016
§ 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: 54.615 | 54.623
Goto Year: 2014 |
2016
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