§ 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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