# Medicare Program; Limitation on Recoupment of Provider and Supplier Overpayments
> **Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services** · Final rule. · Published 2009-09-16 · Effective 2009-11-16 · 74 FR 47458
## Document
- **Document number:** E9-22166
- **Category:** medicare
- **Sub-agency:** Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 74 FR 47458
- **CFR reference:** 42 CFR 405
- **Publication date:** 2009-09-16
- **Effective date:** 2009-11-16
- **HHS docket:** CMS-6025-F
## Abstract

This final rule implements a provision of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) which prohibits recouping Medicare overpayments from a provider or supplier that seeks a reconsideration from a Qualified Independent Contractor (QIC). This provision changes how interest is to be paid to a provider or supplier whose overpayment is reversed at subsequent administrative or judicial levels of appeal. This final rule defines the overpayments to which the limitation applies, how the limitation works in concert with the appeals process, and the change in our obligation to pay interest to a provider or supplier whose appeal is successful at levels above the QIC.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2009/09/16/E9-22166/medicare-program-limitation-on-recoupment-of-provider-and-supplier-overpayments)
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