---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 401.722"
title: "42"
number: "401.722"
heading: "Qualified clinical data registries."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/401.722"
---

# §401.722. Qualified clinical data registries.

- (a) A qualified clinical data registry that agrees to meet all the requirements in this subpart, with the exception of [§ 401.707(d)](/cfr/42/401.707.md?p=d), may request access to Medicare data as a quasi qualified entity in accordance with such qualified entity program requirements.
- (b) Notwithstanding [§ 401.703(q)](/cfr/42/401.703.md?p=q) (generally defining combined data), for purposes of qualified clinical data registries acting as quasi qualified entities under the qualified entity program requirements, combined data means, at a minimum, a set of CMS claims data provided under this subpart combined with clinical data or a subset of clinical data.

## Notes

### Amendments

[81 FR 44482, July 7, 2016]

### Source

Source: 76 FR 76567, Dec. 7, 2011, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1302, 1395hh, 1395w-5, and 1395kk-2.

### Amendments

[81 FR 44482, July 7, 2016]