---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 416.1024"
title: "20"
number: "416.1024"
heading: "Medical and other purchased services."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/416.1024"
---

# §416.1024. Medical and other purchased services.


The State will determine the rates of payment for purchasing medical or other services necessary to make determinations of disability. The rates may not exceed the highest rate paid by Federal or other agencies in the State for the same or similar type of service. The State will maintain documentation to support the rates of payment it uses.


## Notes

### Amendments

[46 FR 29211, May 29, 1981, as amended at 71 FR 16461, Mar. 31, 2006; 76 FR 24812, May 3, 2011]

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 702(a)(5), 1614, 1631, and 1633 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 902(a)(5), 1382c, 1383, and 1383b).

### Source

Source: 46 FR 29211, May 29, 1981, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[46 FR 29211, May 29, 1981, as amended at 71 FR 16461, Mar. 31, 2006; 76 FR 24812, May 3, 2011]