Fed Regist. 2008 Aug 8;73(154):46415-62.
This final rule updates the payment rates used under the prospective payment system (PPS) for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), for fiscal year (FY) 2009. It also discusses our ongoing analysis of nursing home staff time measurement data collected in the Staff Time and Resource Intensity Verification (STRIVE) project. Finally, this final rule makes technical corrections in the regulations text with respect to Medicare bad debt payments to SNFs and the reference to the definition of urban and rural as applied to SNFs.
本最终规则更新了2009财年熟练护理机构（SNF）在预期支付系统（PPS）下使用的支付费率。它还讨论了我们对在员工时间和资源强度核查（STRIVE）项目中收集的养老院员工时间测量数据的持续分析。最后，本最终规则对法规文本中关于向SNF支付医疗保险坏账以及适用于SNF的城乡定义的引用进行了技术修正。
