[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: 42CFR417.424]

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                         TITLE 42--PUBLIC HEALTH
 
                             HUMAN SERVICES
 
PART 417--HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS, COMPETITIVE MEDICAL PLANS, AND HEALTH CARE PREPAYMENT PLANS--Table of Contents
 
  Subpart K--Enrollment, Entitlement, and Disenrollment under Medicare 
                                Contract
 
Sec. 417.424  Denial of enrollment.

    (a) Basis for denial. An HMO or CMP may deny enrollment to an 
individual who meets the criteria of Sec. 417.422 if acceptance would--
    (1) Cause the number of enrollees who are Medicare or Medicaid 
beneficiaries to exceed 50 percent of the HMO's or CMP's total 
enrollment;
    (2) Prevent the HMO or CMP from complying with any of the other 
contract qualifying conditions set forth in subpart J of this part;
    (3) Require the HMO or CMP to exceed its enrollment capacity; or
    (4) Cause the enrollment to become substantially nonrepresentative 
of the general population in the HMO's or CMP's geographic area.
    (b) Selection policies. (1) Denial under paragraph (a)(4) of this 
section must be in accordance with written selection policies approved 
by CMS. (2) Enrollment of individuals will not be considered to make the 
enrollment of the HMO or CMP substantially nonrepresentative of the 
general population in the HMO's or CMP's geographic area unless, as a 
result of the enrollment, the proportion of the subgroup of enrollees to 
which the enrollee belongs as compared to the HMO's or CMP's total 
enrollment exceeds by at least ten percent the subgroup's proportion of 
the general population in the geographic area of the HMO or CMP. (A 
subgroup is a class of Medicare enrollees of an HMO or CMP that CMS 
constructs on the basis of actuarial factors.)

[50 FR 1346, Jan. 10, 1985; 50 FR 20570, May 17, 1985, as amended at 58 
FR 38078, July 15, 1993; 60 FR 45677, Sept. 1, 1995]