# Medicare and State Health Care Programs: Fraud and Abuse; Ambulance Replenishing Safe Harbor Under the Anti-Kickback Statute
> **Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services** · Final rule. · Published 2001-12-04 · Effective 2002-01-03 · 66 FR 62979
## Document
- **Document number:** 01-29875
- **Category:** medicare
- **Sub-agency:** Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 66 FR 62979
- **CFR reference:** 42 CFR 1001
- **Publication date:** 2001-12-04
- **Effective date:** 2002-01-03
## Abstract

This final rule sets forth a safe harbor, as authorized under section 14 of the Medicare and Medicaid Patient and Program Protection Act of 1987, to protect certain arrangements involving hospitals or other receiving facilities that replenish drugs and medical supplies used by ambulance providers (or first responders) when transporting patients to the hospitals or receiving facilities.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2001/12/04/01-29875/medicare-and-state-health-care-programs-fraud-and-abuse-ambulance-replenishing-safe-harbor-under-the)
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