---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 424.56"
title: "42"
number: "424.56"
heading: "Payment to a beneficiary and to a supplier."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/424.56"
---

# §424.56. Payment to a beneficiary and to a supplier.

- (a) **Conditions for split payment.** If the beneficiary assigns the claim after paying part of the bill, payment may be made partly to the beneficiary and partly to the supplier.
- (b) **Payment to the supplier.** Payment to the supplier who submits the assigned claim is for whichever of the following amounts is less:
  - (1) The reasonable charge minus the amount the beneficiary had already paid to the supplier; or
  - (2) **The full Part B benefit due for the services furnished.**
- (c) **Payment to the beneficiary.** Any part of the Part B benefit which, on the basis of [paragraph (b)](#b) of this section, is not payable to the supplier, is paid to the beneficiary.
- (d) **Examples.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[53 FR 6641, Mar. 2, 1988; 53 FR 12945, Apr. 20, 1988]

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1302 and 1395hh.

### Source

Source: 53 FR 6634, Mar. 2, 1988, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[53 FR 6641, Mar. 2, 1988; 53 FR 12945, Apr. 20, 1988]