130 Mass. Reg. 433.404

Current through Register 1523, June 7, 2024
Section 433.404 - Nonpayable Circumstances
(A) The MassHealth agency does not pay a physician for services provided under any of the following circumstances.
(1) The services were provided by a physician who individually or through a group practice has contractual arrangements with an acute, chronic, or rehabilitation hospital, medical school, or other medical institution that involve a salary, compensation in kind, teaching, research, or payment from any other source, if such payment would result in dual compensation for professional, supervisory, or administrative services related to member care.
(2) The services were provided by a physician who is an attending, visiting, or supervising physician in an acute, chronic, or rehabilitation hospital but who is not legally responsible for the management of the member's case with respect to medical, surgery, anesthesia, laboratory, or radiology services.
(3) The services were provided by a physician who is a salaried intern, resident, fellow, or house officer. 130 CMR 433.404 does not apply to a salaried physician when the physician supplements his or her income by providing services during off-duty hours on premises other than those of the institution that pays the physician a salary, or through which the physician rotates as part of his or her training.
(4) The services were provided in a state institution by a state-employed physician or physician consultant.
(5) Under comparable circumstances, the physician does not customarily bill private patients who do not have health insurance.
(B) The MassHealth agency does not pay a physician for performing, administering, or dispensing any experimental, unproven, cosmetic, or otherwise medically unnecessary procedure or treatment.
(C) The MassHealth agency does not pay a physician for the treatment of male or female infertility (including, but not limited to, laboratory tests, drugs, and procedures associated with such treatment); however, MassHealth does pay a physician for the diagnosis of male or female infertility.
(D) The MassHealth agency does not pay a physician for otherwise payable service codes when those codes are used to bill for circumstances that are not payable pursuant to 130 CMR 433.404.

130 CMR 433.404

Amended by Mass Register Issue S1277, eff. 1/2/2015.
Amended by Mass Register Issue S1345, eff. 8/11/2017.
Amended by Mass Register Issue 1461, eff. 1/21/2022.