§ 54.619   Audits and recordkeeping.

   (a) Health care providers. (1) Health care providers shall maintain for
   their purchases of services supported under the Telecommunications Program
   documentation for five years from the end of the funding year sufficient to
   establish compliance with all rules in this subpart. Documentation must
   include,  among other things, records of allocations for consortia and
   entities that engage in eligible and ineligible activities, if applicable.
   Mobile rural health care providers shall maintain annual logs indicating:
   The date and locations of each clinic stop; and the number of patients
   served at each such clinic stop.

   (2) Mobile rural health care providers shall maintain its annual logs for a
   period of five years. Mobile rural health care providers shall make its logs
   available to the Administrator and the Commission upon request.

   (b) Production of records. Health care providers shall produce such records
   at the request of any auditor appointed by the Administrator or any other
   state or federal agency with jurisdiction.

   (c)  Random  audits.  Health care providers shall be subject to random
   compliance  audits  to  ensure  that requesters are complying with the
   certification  requirements  set forth in § 54.615(c) and are otherwise
   eligible to receive universal service support and that rates charged comply
   with the statute and regulations.

   (d) Service providers. Service providers shall retain documents related to
   the delivery of discounted services under the Telecommunications Program for
   at least 5 years after the last day of the delivery of discounted services.
   Any  other document that demonstrates compliance with the statutory or
   regulatory  requirements  for the rural health care mechanism shall be
   retained as well.

   [ 68 FR 74503 , Dec. 24, 2003, as amended at  69 FR 12087 , Mar. 15, 2004;  70 FR 6373 , Feb. 7, 2005;  71 FR 13281 , Mar. 15, 2006;  72 FR 54218 , Sept. 24, 2007;
    78 FR 13984 , Mar. 1, 2013]

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