Regulations last checked for updates: May 23, 2025

Title 42 - Public Health last revised: May 16, 2025
§ 424.52 - Payment to a nonparticipating hospital.

Medicare pays a nonparticipating hospital for the following services, if covered, in the specified circumstances:

(a) Emergency inpatient and outpatient services furnished by a U.S. hospital, if the hospital has in effect an election to claim payment in accordance with subpart G of this part.

(b) Certain medical and other health services covered under Medicare Part B and furnished by a U.S. hospital, if the hospital meets the requirements of § 424.55 for payment as a supplier.

(c) Emergency or nonemergency inpatient services furnished by a foreign hospital if the hospital has in effect an election to claim payment in accordance with subpart G of this part.

authority: 42 U.S.C. 1302 and 1395hh
source: 53 FR 6634, Mar. 2, 1988, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 42 CFR 424.52