---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 136.204"
title: "42"
number: "136.204"
heading: "Authorization by an urban Indian organization."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/136.204"
---

# §136.204. Authorization by an urban Indian organization.


An urban Indian organization may authorize for purchase items and services for an eligible urban Indian as those terms are defined in 25 U.S.C. [1603(f)](/usc/25/1603.md?p=f) and [(h)](/usc/25/1603.md?p=h) according to [section 503](/cfr/42/503.md) of the IHCIA and applicable regulations. Services and items furnished by physicians and other health care professionals and non-hospital-based entities shall be subject to the payment methodology set forth in [§ 136.203](/cfr/42/136.203.md).


## Notes

### Source

Source: 81 FR 14982, Mar. 21, 2016, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 2001 and 2003; 25 U.S.C. 13; and 25 U.S.C. 1621a.