---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 447.280"
title: "42"
number: "447.280"
heading: "Hospital providers of NF services (swing-bed hospitals)."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/447.280"
---

# §447.280. Hospital providers of NF services (swing-bed hospitals).

- (a) **General rule.** If the State plan provides for NF services furnished by a swing-bed hospital, as specified in §§ [440.40(a)](/cfr/42/440.40.md?p=a) and [440.150(f)](/cfr/42/440.150.md?p=f) of this chapter, the methods and standards used to determine payment rates for routine NF services must—
  - (1) Provide for payment at the average rate per patient day paid to NFs, as applicable, for routine services furnished during the previous calendar year; or
  - (2) **Meet the State plan and payment requirements described in this subpart, as applicable.**
- (b) **Application of the rule.** The payment methodology used by a State to set payment rates for routine NF services must apply to all swing-bed hospitals in the State.

## Notes

### Amendments

[59 FR 56237, Nov. 10, 1994]

### Source

Source: 46 FR 47971, Sept. 30, 1981, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1302, and 1396r-8, and Pub. L. 111-148.

### Source

Source: 43 FR 45253, Sept. 29, 1978, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[59 FR 56237, Nov. 10, 1994]