# Medicare Program: Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems and Quality Reporting Programs; Organ Procurement Organization Reporting and Communication; Transplant Outcome Measures and Documentation Requirements; Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs; Payment to Nonexcepted Off-Campus Provider-Based Department of a Hospital; Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program; Establishment of Payment Rates Under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for Nonexcepted Items and Services Furnished by an Off-Campus Provider-Based Department of a Hospital; Correction and Extension of Comment Period
> **Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services** · Correction and extension of comment period for final rule and interim final rule. · Published 2017-01-03 · Effective 2017-01-01 · 82 FR 24
## Document
- **Document number:** 2016-31774
- **Category:** medicare
- **Sub-agency:** Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 82 FR 24
- **CFR reference:** 42 CFR 414
- **Publication date:** 2017-01-03
- **Effective date:** 2017-01-01
- **HHS docket:** CMS-1656-CN
## Abstract

This document corrects technical errors that appeared in the final rule with comment period and interim final rule with comment period published in the Federal Register on November 14, 2016, entitled "Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems and Quality Reporting Programs; Organ Procurement Organization Reporting and Communication; Transplant Outcome Measures and Documentation Requirements; Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs; Payment to Nonexcepted Off-Campus Provider-Based Department of a Hospital; Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program; Establishment of Payment Rates under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for Nonexcepted Items and Services Furnished by an Off-Campus Provider-Based Department of a Hospital." This document extends the comment period to January 3, 2017 for both the final rule with comment period and the interim final rule with comment period.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/01/03/2016-31774/medicare-program-hospital-outpatient-prospective-payment-and-ambulatory-surgical-center-payment)
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