---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 413.406"
title: "42"
number: "413.406"
heading: "Acquisition of pancreata for islet cell transplant."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/413.406"
---

# §413.406. Acquisition of pancreata for islet cell transplant.

- (a) Medicare only covers and pays for reasonable costs of acquisition on or after October 1, 2004, of pancreata for islet cell transplants into Medicare beneficiaries participating in a National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases clinical trial of islet cell transplantation in accordance with [section 733](/cfr/42/733.md) of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003.
- (b) Pancreata procured under [paragraph (a)](#a), for covered islet cell transplants must be assigned a full standard acquisition charge and be treated as solid organs for procurement purposes.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 86 FR 73515, Dec. 27, 2021, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1302, 1395d(d), 1395f(b), 1395g, 1395l(a), (i), and (n), 1395m, 1395x(v), 1395x(kkk), 1395hh, 1395rr, 1395tt, and 1395ww.

### Source

Source: 51 FR 34793, Sept. 30, 1986, unless otherwise noted.