---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 422.451"
title: "42"
number: "422.451"
heading: "Moratorium on new local preferred provider organization plans."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/422.451"
---

# §422.451. Moratorium on new local preferred provider organization plans.


CMS will not approve the offering of a local preferred provider organization plan during 2006 or 2007 in a service area unless the MA organization seeking to offer the plan was offering a local preferred provider organization plan in the service area before December 31, 2005.


## Notes

### Source

Source: 70 FR 4733, Jan. 28, 2005, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1302, 1306, 1395w-21 through 1395w-28, and 1395hh.

### Source

Source: 63 FR 18134, Apr. 14, 1998, unless otherwise noted.