Medicare Program; Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and Fiscal Year 1997 Rates; Corrections

In the August 30, 1996 issue of the Federal Register (61 FR 46166), we published a final rule revising the Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment systems for operating costs and capital- related costs to implement necessary changes arising from our continuing experience with the system. In the addendum to that final rule, we announced the amounts and factors for determining prospective payment rates for Medicare hospital inpatient services for operating costs and capital-related costs applicable to discharges occurring on or after October 1, 1996, and set forth rate-of-increase limits for hospitals and hospital units excluded from the prospective payment systems. This document corrects errors made in that document.