# Medicare Program; Advancing Care Coordination Through Episode Payment Models (EPMs); Cardiac Rehabilitation Incentive Payment Model; and Changes to the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Model (CJR); Delay of Effective Date
> **Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services** · Final rule; delay of effective date. · Published 2017-05-19 · Effective 2017-01-03 · 82 FR 22895
## Document
- **Document number:** 2017-10340
- **Category:** medicare
- **Sub-agency:** Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 82 FR 22895
- **CFR reference:** 42 CFR 510
- **Publication date:** 2017-05-19
- **Effective date:** 2017-01-03
- **HHS docket:** CMS-5519-F3
## Abstract

This final rule finalizes May 20, 2017 as the effective date of the final rule titled "Advancing Care Coordination Through Episode Payment Models (EPMs); Cardiac Rehabilitation Incentive Payment Model; and Changes to the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Model (CJR)" originally published in the January 3, 2017 Federal Register. This final rule also finalizes a delay of the applicability date of the regulations at 42 CFR part 512 from July 1, 2017 to January 1, 2018 and delays the effective date of the specific CJR regulations listed in the DATES section from July 1, 2017 to January 1, 2018.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/05/19/2017-10340/medicare-program-advancing-care-coordination-through-episode-payment-models-epms-cardiac)
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