[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 42, Volume 2]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 42CFR401.108]

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                         TITLE 42--PUBLIC HEALTH
 
                             HUMAN SERVICES
 
PART 401--GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS--Table of Contents
 
                Subpart B--Confidentiality and Disclosure
 
Sec. 401.108  CMS rulings.

    (a) After September 1981, a precedent final opinion or order or a 
statement of policy or interpretation that has not been published in the 
Federal Register as a part of a regulation or of a notice implementing 
regulations, but which has been adopted by CMS as having precedent, may 
be published in the Federal Register as a CMS Ruling and will be made 
available in the publication entitled CMS Rulings.
    (b) Precedent final opinions and orders and statements of policy and 
interpretation that were adopted by CMS before October, 1981, and that 
have not been published in the Federal Register are available in CMS 
Rulings.
    (c) CMS Rulings are published under the authority of the 
Administrator, CMS. They are binding on all CMS Components, and on the 
Social Security Administration to the extent that components of the 
Social Security Administration adjudicate matters under the jurisdiction 
of CMS.

[48 FR 22924, May 23, 1983]