---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 486.306"
title: "42"
number: "486.306"
heading: "OPO service area size designation and documentation requirements."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/486.306"
---

# §486.306. OPO service area size designation and documentation requirements.

- (a) **General documentation requirement.** An OPO must make available to CMS documentation verifying that the OPO meets the requirements of paragraphs [(b)](#b) and [(c)](#c) of this section at the time of application and throughout the period of its designation.
- (b) **Service area designation.** The defined service area either includes an entire metropolitan statistical area or a New England county metropolitan statistical area as specified by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget or does not include any part of such an area.
- (c) **Service area location and characteristics.** An OPO must define and document a proposed service area's location through the following information:
  - (1) The names of counties (or parishes in Louisiana) served or, if the service area includes an entire State, the name of the State.
  - (2) **Geographic boundaries of the service area.**
  - (3) The number and the names of all hospitals and critical access hospitals in the service area that have both a ventilator and an operating room.

## Notes

### Amendments

[71 FR 31046, May 31, 2006, as amended at 79 FR 27156, May 12, 2014]

### Source

Source: 71 FR 31046, May 31, 2006, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 273, 1302, 1320b-8, and 1395hh.

### Amendments

[71 FR 31046, May 31, 2006, as amended at 79 FR 27156, May 12, 2014]