Data collection period means, with respect to a year, the 12-month period that reflects the ground ambulance organization's annual accounting period.
Data reporting period means, with respect to a year, the 5-month period that begins the day after the last day of the ground ambulance organization's data collection period.
For a year means one of the calendar years from 2020 through 2024.
Medicare Ground Ambulance Data Collection Instrument means the single survey-based data collection instrument that can be accessed by sampled ambulance organizations under this section via a secure web-based system for reporting data under this section.
42 C.F.R. §414.626