---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 455.460"
title: "42"
number: "455.460"
heading: "Application fee."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/455.460"
---

# §455.460. Application fee.

- (a) Beginning on or after March 25, 2011, States must collect the applicable application fee prior to executing a provider agreement from a prospective or re-enrolling provider other than either of the following:
  - (1) **Individual physicians or nonphysician practitioners.**
  - (2)
    - (i) **Providers who are enrolled in either of the following—**
      - (A) **Title XVIII of the Act.**
      - (B) **Another State's title XIX or XXI plan.**
    - (ii) **Providers that have paid the applicable application fee to—**
      - (A) A Medicare contractor; or
      - (B) **Another State.**
- (b) If the fees collected by a State agency in accordance with [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section exceed the cost of the screening program, the State agency must return that portion of the fees to the Federal government.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 76 FR 5968, Feb. 2, 2011, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1302.

### Source

Source: 43 FR 45262, Sept. 29, 1978, unless otherwise noted.