# Medicare Program; Changes to the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System for Calendar Year 2002
> **Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services** · Final rule. · Published 2001-11-30 · Effective 2002-01-01 · 66 FR 59856
## Document
- **Document number:** 01-29621
- **Category:** medicare
- **Sub-agency:** Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 66 FR 59856
- **CFR reference:** 42 CFR 413
- **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.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2001/11/30/01-29621/medicare-program-changes-to-the-hospital-outpatient-prospective-payment-system-for-calendar-year)
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