---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 447.40"
title: "42"
number: "447.40"
heading: "Payments for reserving beds in institutions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/447.40"
---

# §447.40. Payments for reserving beds in institutions.

- (a) The Medicaid agency may make payments to reserve a bed during a beneficiary's temporary absence from an inpatient facility, if—
  - (1) The State plan provides for such payments and specifies any limitations on the policy; and
  - (2) Absences for purposes other than required hospitalization (which cannot be anticipated and planned) are included in the patient's plan of care.
- (b) An agency that pays for reserved beds in an inpatient facility may pay less for a reserved bed than an occupied bed if there is a cost differential between the two beds. ([Section 1102](/cfr/42/1102.md) of the Act.)

## Notes

### Amendments

[43 FR 45253, Sept. 29, 1978, as amended at 51 FR 24491, July 3, 1986]

### 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

[43 FR 45253, Sept. 29, 1978, as amended at 51 FR 24491, July 3, 1986]