Goto Section: 54.632 | 54.634 | Table of Contents
FCC 54.633
Revised as of October 2, 2015
Goto Year:2014 |
2016
§ 54.633 Health care provider contribution.
(a) Health care provider contribution. All health care providers receiving
support under the Healthcare Connect Fund shall receive a 65 percent
discount on the cost of eligible expenses and shall be required to
contribute 35 percent of the total cost of all eligible expenses.
(b) Limits on eligible sources of health care provider contribution. Only
funds from eligible sources may be applied toward the health care provider's
required contribution.
(1) Eligible sources include the applicant or eligible health care provider
participants; state grants, funding, or appropriations; federal funding,
grants, loans, or appropriations except for other federal universal service
funding; Tribal government funding; and other grant funding, including
private grants.
(2) Ineligible sources include (but are not limited to) in-kind or implied
contributions from health care providers; direct payments from vendors or
other service providers, including contractors and consultants to such
entities; and for-profit entities.
(c) Disclosure of health care provider contribution source. Prior to
receiving support, applicants are required to identify with specificity
their sources of funding for their contribution of eligible expenses.
(d) Future revenues from excess capacity as source of health care provider
contribution. A consortium applicant that receives support for
participant-owned network facilities under § 54.636 may use future revenues
from excess capacity as a source for the required health care provider
contribution, subject to the following limitations.
(1) The consortium's selection criteria and evaluation for
“cost-effectiveness” pursuant to § 54.642 cannot provide a preference to
bidders that offer to construct excess capacity.
(2) The applicant must pay the full amount of the additional costs for
excess capacity facilities that will not be part of the supported health
care network.
(3) The additional cost of constructing excess capacity facilities may not
count toward a health care provider's required contribution.
(4) The inclusion of excess capacity facilities cannot increase the funded
cost of the dedicated health care network in any way.
(5) An eligible health care provider (typically the consortium, although it
may be an individual health care provider participating in the consortium)
must retain ownership of the excess capacity facilities. It may make the
facilities available to third parties only under an indefeasible right of
use (IRU) or lease arrangement. The lease or IRU between the participant and
the third party must be an arm's length transaction. To ensure that this is
an arm's length transaction, neither the vendor that installs the excess
capacity facilities nor its affiliate is eligible to enter into an IRU or
lease with the participant.
(6) Any amount prepaid for use of the excess capacity facilities (IRU or
lease) must be placed in an escrow account. The participant can then use the
escrow account as an eligible source of funds for the participant's 35
percent contribution to the project.
(7) All revenues from use of the excess capacity facilities by the third
party must be used for the health care provider contribution or for
sustainability of the health care network supported by the Healthcare
Connect Fund. Network costs that may be funded with any additional revenues
that remain include administration, equipment, software, legal fees, or
other costs not covered by the Healthcare Connect Fund, as long as they are
relevant to sustaining the network.
[ 78 FR 13985 , Mar. 1, 2013]
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Goto Section: 54.632 | 54.634
Goto Year: 2014 |
2016
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