[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 42, Volume 4]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 42CFR447.301]



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                         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]