---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 416.180"
title: "42"
number: "416.180"
heading: "Basis and scope."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/416.180"
---

# §416.180. Basis and scope.

- (a) **Basis.** This subpart implements section 141 of Public Law 103-432, which provides for adjustments to payment amounts for new technology intraocular lenses (IOLs) furnished at ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs).
- (b) **Scope.** This subpart sets forth—
  - (1) The process for interested parties to request that CMS review the appropriateness of the ASC facility fee for insertion of an IOL. This process includes a review of whether that payment is reasonable and related to the cost of acquiring a lens determined by CMS as belonging to a class of new technology IOLs;
  - (2) Factors that CMS considers for determination of a new class of new technology IOLs; and
  - (3) **Application of the payment adjustment.**

## Notes

### Source

Source: 71 FR 68226, Nov. 24, 2006, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 273, 1302, 1320b-8, and 1395hh.

### Source

Source: 47 FR 34094, Aug. 5, 1982, unless otherwise noted.