[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 42, Volume 3]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 42CFR447.301]

[Page 307]
 
                         TITLE 42--PUBLIC HEALTH
 
  CHAPTER IV--CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF 
                 HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES--(Continued)
 
PART 447--PAYMENTS FOR SERVICES--Table of Contents
 
Subpart F--Payment Methods for Other Institutional and Noninstitutional 
                                Services
 
Sec. 447.301  Definitions.

    For the purposes of this subpart--
    Brand name means any registered trade name commonly used to identify 
a drug.
    Estimated acquisition cost means the agency's best estimate of the 
price generally and currently paid by providers for a drug marketed or 
sold by a particular manufacturer or labeler in the package size of drug 
most frequently purchased by providers.
    Multiple source drug means a drug marketed or sold by two or more 
manufacturers or labelers or a drug marketed or sold by the same 
manufacturer or labeler under two or more different proprietary names or 
both under a proprietary name and without such a name.

[52 FR 28657, July 31, 1987]