Medicare Program; Correction of Certain Calendar Year 2002 Payment Rates Under the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and the Pro Rata Reduction on Transitional Pass-Through Payments; Correction of Technical and Typographical Errors
medicare · Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services · Rule · Published 2002-03-01 · Effective 2002-04-01 · 67 FR 9556
Document
Document number
02-5071
Federal Register citation
67 FR 9556
CFR reference
42 CFR 413
Type
Rule
Action
Final rule.
Category
medicare
Sub-agency
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Publication date
2002-03-01
Effective date
2002-04-01
HHS docket
CMS-1159-F4
Abstract
This final rule corrects inadvertent technical errors that affect the amounts and factors used to determine the payment rates for services paid under the Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system as published in the November 30, 2001 final rule entitled "Changes to the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System for Calendar Year 2002." In addition, this final rule corrects the amount of the uniform reduction to be applied to transitional pass- through payments for CY 2002. This final rule also corrects other technical and typographical errors that appeared in the November 30, 2001 final rule.