1. Proposed Rule CMS-1203-P
Title: Medicare Program; Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and Fiscal Year 2003 Rates
Publication Date: 05/09/2002
Description: We are proposing to revise the Medicare acute care hospital inpatient prospective payment systems for operating and capital costs to implement changes arising from our continuing experience with these systems. In addition, in the Addendum to this proposed rule, we describe the proposed changes to the amounts and factors used to determine the rates for Medicare hospital inpatient services for operating costs and capital-related costs. These changes would be applicable to discharges occurring on or after October 1, 2002. We also are setting forth proposed rate-of-increase limits as well as proposed policy changes for hospitals and hospital units excluded from the acute care hospital inpatient prospective payment systems.
In addition, we are proposing changes to other hospital payment policies, which include policies governing: payments to hospitals for the direct and indirect costs of graduate medical education; pass-through payments for the services of nonphysician anesthetists in some rural hospitals; clinical requirements for swing-bed services in critical access hospitals (CAHs); payments to provider-based entities; and implementation of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA).
2. Final Rule CMS-1203-F
Title: Medicare Program; Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and Fiscal Year 2003 Rates
Publication Date: 08/01/2002
Description: We are revising the Medicare acute care hospital inpatient prospective payment systems for operating and capital costs to implement changes arising from our continuing experience with these systems. In addition, in the Addendum to this final rule, we describe the changes to the amounts and factors used to determine the rates for Medicare hospital inpatient services for operating costs and capital-related costs. These changes are applicable to discharges occurring on or after October 1, 2002. We also are setting forth rate-of-increase limits as well as policy changes for hospitals and hospital units excluded from the acute care hospital inpatient prospective payment systems.
In addition, we are setting forth changes to other hospital payment policies, which include policies governing: Payments to hospitals for the direct and indirect costs of graduate medical education; pass-through payments for the services of nonphysician anesthetists in some rural hospitals; clinical requirements for swing-bed services in critical access hospitals (CAHs); and requirements and responsibilities related to provider-based entities.
3. Correction Notice CMS-1203-CN
Title: Medicare Program; Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and Fiscal Year 2003 Rates; Correction; Final Rule
Publication Date: 04/25/2003
Description: This document corrects technical errors that appeared in the final rule published in the Federal Register on August 1, 2002 entitled ``Medicare Program; Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and Fiscal Year 2003 Rates,'' including three technical errors in the wage index values. Except for the three wage index corrections, these technical corrections are effective retrospectively to October 1, 2002. The corrections to the wage index values are effective prospectively for discharges occurring on or after April 28, 2003.