(a) Effective date. A participant's voluntary disenrollment is effective on the first day of the month following the date the PACE organization receives the participant's notice of voluntary disenrollment.

(b) Reasons for voluntary disenrollment. A PACE participant may voluntarily disenroll from the program without cause at any time.

(c) Responsibilities of PACE organization. A PACE organization must ensure that its employees or contractors do not engage in any practice that would reasonably be expected to have the effect of steering or encouraging disenrollment of participants due to a change in health status.

[84 FR 25676, June 3, 2019]