Medicare program; schedule of limits on home health agency costs per visit effective October 1, 1981--Health Care Financing Administration. Final notice.

This notice sets forth a schedule of limits on home health agency (HHA) costs that may be reimbursed under the Medicare program beginning October 1, 1981. This is a special revision of the schedule, not an annual update, and replaces the current schedule, which was published in the Federal Register on June 30, 1981 (46 FR 33645). It incorporates a change required by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (Pub. L. 97-35) which is to lower the level of the limits from the 80th percentile of unweighted per visit costs to the 75th percentile of these costs. As required by statute, this notice also has a special provision for its effective date.