Fed Regist. 2001 Nov 30;66(231):59855-60125.
This final rule revises the Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system to implement applicable statutory requirements, including relevant provisions of the Medicare, Medicaid,and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000, and changes arising from our continuing experience with this system. In addition, it describes changes to the amounts and factors used to determine the payment rates for Medicare hospital outpatient services paid under the prospective payment system. This final rule also announces a uniform reduction of 68.9 percent to be applied to each of the transitional pass-through payments.These changes are applicable to services furnished on or after January 1, 2002.
本最终规则修订了医疗保险医院门诊前瞻性支付系统，以实施适用的法定要求，包括《2000年医疗保险、医疗补助和儿童健康保险计划福利改善与保护法案》的相关条款，以及基于我们在该系统持续经验所产生的变化。此外，它还描述了用于确定根据前瞻性支付系统支付的医疗保险医院门诊服务支付费率的金额和因素的变化。本最终规则还宣布对每项过渡性直通支付统一削减68.9%。这些变化适用于2002年1月1日及以后提供的服务。
