Fed Regist. 1984 May 15;49(95):20616-29.
This rule sets forth a proposed schedule of limits on home health agency (HHA) costs that may be reimbursed under the Medicare program and a proposed revision of the regulations governing the limits. The schedule is an update of the limits to take into account more recent data and the effects of inflation on HHA operating costs and would apply to HHA costs for entire cost reporting periods beginning on or after July 1, 1984. The schedule would also explain the basic methodology for computing the cost limits, the change in terminology involving metropolitan statistical areas and a proposed change to the method of deriving the share of labor cost contained in the limits. The proposed revision to the regulations would clarify our policy concerning exceptions from the cost limits for newly established HHAs .
本规则规定了医疗保险计划下可能报销的家庭健康机构（HHA）成本的拟议限额时间表，以及对管理这些限额的法规的拟议修订。该时间表是对限额的更新，以考虑到最新数据以及通货膨胀对HHA运营成本的影响，并且适用于1984年7月1日或之后开始的整个成本报告期的HHA成本。该时间表还将解释计算成本限额的基本方法、涉及大都市统计区的术语变化，以及对限额中所含劳动力成本份额推导方法的拟议更改。对法规的拟议修订将阐明我们关于新成立的HHA成本限额例外情况的政策。
