Medicare Program; Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and Fiscal Year 2003 Rates; Correction
medicare · Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services · Rule · Published 2003-04-25 · Effective 2002-10-01 · 68 FR 22268
Document
Document number
03-10015
Federal Register citation
68 FR 22268
CFR reference
42 CFR 405
Type
Rule
Action
Correction of final rule.
Category
medicare
Sub-agency
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Publication date
2003-04-25
Effective date
2002-10-01
HHS docket
CMS-1203-CN
Abstract
This document corrects technical errors that appeared in the final rule published in the Federal Register on August 1, 2002 entitled "Medicare Program; Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and Fiscal Year 2003 Rates," including three technical errors in the wage index values. Except for the three wage index corrections, these technical corrections are effective retrospectively to October 1, 2002. The corrections to the wage index values are effective prospectively for discharges occurring on or after April 28, 2003.