Medicare Program; Changes to the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System for Calendar Year 2002
medicare · Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services · Rule · Published 2001-11-30 · Effective 2002-01-01 · 66 FR 59856
Document
Document number
01-29621
Federal Register citation
66 FR 59856
CFR reference
42 CFR 413
Type
Rule
Action
Final rule.
Category
medicare
Sub-agency
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Publication date
2001-11-30
Effective date
2002-01-01
HHS docket
CMS-1159-F2
Abstract
This final rule revises the Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system to implement applicable statutory requirements, including relevant provisions of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000, and changes arising from our continuing experience with this system. In addition, it describes changes to the amounts and factors used to determine the payment rates for Medicare hospital outpatient services paid under the prospective payment system. This final rule also announces a uniform reduction of 68.9 percent to be applied to each of the transitional pass-through payments. These changes are applicable to services furnished on or after January 1, 2002.