Quarterly listing of program issuances and coverage determinations--HCFA. General notice.

This notice lists HCFA manual instructions, interpretative rules, statements of policy, and national coverage determinations that were published during July, August and September 1989 that relate to the Medicare program. Section 1871 (c) of the Social Security Act requires that we publish a list of our Medicare issuances in the Federal Register every three months. We also are providing the contents of several revisions to the Medicare Coverage Issues Manual. On August 21, 1989 we published (42 FR 34555) the content of the Manual and indicated that we will publish quarterly any updates. Adding the Coverage Issues Manual changes to this listing allows us to fulfill this requirement in a manner that facilitates easy identification of coverage and other changes in our manuals.