# Medicare Program; Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and Fiscal Year 2003 Rates; Correction
> **Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services** · Correction of final rule. · Published 2003-04-25 · Effective 2002-10-01 · 68 FR 22268
## Document
- **Document number:** 03-10015
- **Category:** medicare
- **Sub-agency:** Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 68 FR 22268
- **CFR reference:** 42 CFR 405
- **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.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2003/04/25/03-10015/medicare-program-changes-to-the-hospital-inpatient-prospective-payment-systems-and-fiscal-year-2003)
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