Medicare program; adjustments to cost limits for skilled nursing facility inpatient routine service costs--HCFA. Proposed notice.

This notice proposes to eliminate an adjustment that we make to the Medicare cost limits for skilled nursing facility (SNF) routine services if the final rate of change in the market basket index for a calendar year that we use to set the limits differs from the estimated rate of change in the index by at least 0.3 percentage points. Elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register is a separate final notice with comment period that explains the methodology we use to develop the cost limits and sets forth the cost limits applicable to cost reporting periods occurring on or after October 1, 1997.