---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 456.371"
title: "42"
number: "456.371"
heading: "Exploration of alternative services."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/456.371"
---

# §456.371. Exploration of alternative services.


If the comprehensive evaluation recommends ICF services for an applicant or beneficiary whose needs could be met by alternative services that are currently unavailable, the facility must enter this fact in the beneficiary's record and begin to look for alternative services.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1302.

### Source

Source: 43 FR 45266, Sept. 29, 1978, unless otherwise noted.