Electronic Comments on CMS Regulations

This page lists by CMS file code the comments we have received on regulations with comment periods beginning February 2004 and ending on or before December 31, 2007. Please note that only electronic comments are posted for comment periods between February 2004 and January 2005.

Docket ID	Title	Published Date	Comment Period Closed
Docket ID CMS-0011-P	Title Medicare Program; E-Prescribing and the Prescription Drug Program	Published Date 2005-02-04	Comment Period Closed 2005-04-05
Docket ID CMS-0018-IFC	Title Identification of Backward Compatible Version of Adopted Standard for the E-Prescribing and the Medicare Prescription Drug Program (Version 8.1)	Published Date 2006-06-23	Comment Period Closed 2006-08-22
Docket ID CMS-0029-P	Title Exemption of Privacy Act Disclosure of Certain Investigative Materials	Published Date 2007-05-25	Comment Period Closed 2007-07-24
Docket ID CMS-1199-IFC	Title Electronic Submission of Cost Reports: Revision to Effective Date of Cost Reporting Period	Published Date 2005-05-27	Comment Period Closed 2005-07-26
Docket ID CMS-1219-P	Title Medicare Program; Durable Medical Equipment Regional Carrier (DMERC) Service Areas and Related Matters	Published Date 2004-03-26	Comment Period Closed 2004-05-25
Docket ID CMS-1263-P	Title Medicare Program; Prospective Payment System for Long-Term Care Hospitals: Proposed Annual Payment Rate Updates and Policy Changes	Published Date 2004-01-30	Comment Period Closed 2004-03-23
Docket ID CMS-1265-P	Title Medicare Program; Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update for Calendar Year 2005	Published Date 2004-06-02	Comment Period Closed 2004-08-02
Docket ID CMS-1270-P	Title Competitive Acquisition for Certain Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies (DMEPOS)	Published Date 2006-05-01	Comment Period Closed 2006-06-30
Docket ID CMS-1282-P	Title Prospective Payment System and Consolidated Billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities--Update for FY 2006	Published Date 2005-05-19	Comment Period Closed 2005-07-12
Docket ID CMS-1286-P	Title Hospice Wage Index for FY 2006	Published Date 2005-04-29	Comment Period Closed 2005-06-28
Docket ID CMS-1287-IFC	Title Health Care Infrastructure Improvement Program; Selection Criteria of Loan Program for Qualifying Hospitals Engaged in Cancer-Related Health Care	Published Date 2005-09-30	Comment Period Closed 2005-11-29
Docket ID CMS-1301-P	Title Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update for Calendar Year 2006	Published Date 2005-07-14	Comment Period Closed 2005-09-06
Docket ID CMS-1303-P	Title Physicians' Referrals to Health Care Entities With Which They Have Financial Relationships; Exceptions for Certain Electronic Prescribing and Electronic Health Records Arrangements	Published Date 2005-10-11	Comment Period Closed 2005-12-12
Docket ID CMS-1304-P	Title Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update for Calendar Year 2007 and Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 Changes to Medicare Payment for Oxygen Equipment and Capped DME Rental	Published Date 2006-08-03	Comment Period Closed 2006-09-25
Docket ID CMS-1306-P	Title Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Prospective Payment System--Update for 2006	Published Date 2006-01-23	Comment Period Closed 2006-03-14
Docket ID CMS-1307-GNC	Title Criteria and Standards for Evaluating (Contractors) Intermediary, Carrier, and Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies (DMEPOS) Regional Carrier Performance During FY 2006	Published Date 2005-09-23	Comment Period Closed 2005-11-22
Docket ID CMS-1309-NC	Title Announcement of an Application From a Hospital Requesting Waiver for Organ Procurement Service Areas	Published Date 2005-08-26	Comment Period Closed 2005-10-25
Docket ID CMS-1317-P	Title Revisions to the Payment Policies of Ambulance Services under the Fee Schedule for Ambulance Services***	Published Date 2006-05-26	Comment Period Closed 2006-07-25
Docket ID CMS-1320-P	Title Medicare Program; Health Care Infrastructure Improvement Program; Forgiveness of Indebtedness	Published Date 2005-09-30	Comment Period Closed 2005-11-29
Docket ID CMS-1321-FC	Title Revisions to Payment Policies and Five-Year Review of Relative Value Units Under the Physician Fee Schedule for CY 2007 and Other Changes to Payment Under Part B; Revisions to Ambulance Fee Schedule; Ambulatory Inflation Factor Update for CY 2007	Published Date 2006-12-01	Comment Period Closed 2007-01-02
Docket ID CMS-1321-P	Title Revisions to Payment Policies Under the Physician Fee Schedule for Calendar Year 2007	Published Date 2006-08-22	Comment Period Closed 2006-10-10
Docket ID CMS-1325-IFC	Title Competitive Acquisition of Outpatient Drugs and Biologicals	Published Date 2005-07-06	Comment Period Closed 2005-09-06
Docket ID CMS-1325-P	Title Medicare Program; Competitive Acquisition of Outpatient Drugs and Biologicals Under Part B	Published Date 2005-03-04	Comment Period Closed 2005-04-26
Docket ID CMS-1371-IFC	Title Medicare Program; Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System; Payment Reform for Calendar Year 2004	Published Date 2004-01-06	Comment Period Closed 2004-03-08
Docket ID CMS-1372-IFC	Title Changes to Medicare Payment for Drugs and Physician Fee Schedule Payments for Calendar Year 2004	Published Date 2004-01-07	Comment Period Closed 2004-03-08
Docket ID CMS-1385-P	Title Revisions to Payment Policies Under the Physician Fee Schedule, and Other Part B Payment Policies; Revisions to Payment Policies for Ambulance Services for CY 2008; and the Proposed Elimination of the E-Rx Exemption for Computer-Generated Faxes	Published Date 2007-07-12	Comment Period Closed 2007-08-31
Docket ID CMS-1392-P	Title Changes to the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System for CY 2008 Payment Rates	Published Date 2007-08-02	Comment Period Closed 2007-09-14
Docket ID CMS-1427-FC	Title Changes to the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Calendar Year 2005 Payment Rates	Published Date 2004-11-15	Comment Period Closed 2005-01-14
Docket ID CMS-1427-P	Title Medicare Program; Changes to the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Calendar Year 2005 Payment Rates	Published Date 2004-08-16	Comment Period Closed 2004-10-08
Docket ID CMS-1428-P	Title Medicare Program; Proposed Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and Fiscal Year 2005 Rates	Published Date 2004-05-14	Comment Period Closed 2004-07-12
Docket ID CMS-1429-FC	Title Revisions to Payment Policies Under the Physician Fee Schedules for Calendar Year 2005	Published Date 2004-11-15	Comment Period Closed 2005-01-14
Docket ID CMS-1429-P	Title Revisions to Payment Policies Under the Physician Fee Schedule for Calendar Year 2005	Published Date 2004-08-05	Comment Period Closed 2004-09-24
Docket ID CMS-1478-IFC	Title Update of the List of Covered Procedures for Ambulatory Surgical Centers for 2005	Published Date 2005-05-04	Comment Period Closed 2005-07-05
Docket ID CMS-1478-P	Title Update of the List of Covered Procedures for Ambulatory Surgical Centers for 2005	Published Date 2004-11-26	Comment Period Closed 2005-01-25
Docket ID CMS-1483-P	Title Prospective Payment System for Long-Term care Hospitals FY 2006 Annual Payment Rate Updates	Published Date 2005-02-03	Comment Period Closed 2005-03-28
Docket ID CMS-1485-P	Title Medicare Program; Prospective Payment System for Long-Term Care Hospitals RY 2007: Proposed Annual Payment Rate Updates, Policy Changes, and Clarification	Published Date 2006-01-27	Comment Period Closed 2006-03-20
Docket ID CMS-1488-P	Title Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and FY 2007 Rates	Published Date 2006-04-25	Comment Period Closed 2006-06-12
Docket ID CMS-1488-P2	Title Inpatient Prospective Payment System: Implementation of the FY 2007 Occupational Mix Adjustment	Published Date 2006-05-17	Comment Period Closed 2006-06-12
Docket ID CMS-1492-IFC	Title Medicare Program; Medicare Ambulance MMA Temporary Rate Increase Beginning July 1, 2004	Published Date 2004-07-01	Comment Period Closed 2004-08-30
Docket ID CMS-1500-P	Title Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and FY 2006 Rates	Published Date 2005-05-04	Comment Period Closed 2005-06-24
Docket ID CMS-1502-P	Title Revisions to Payment Policies Under the Physician Fee Schedule for Calendar Year 2006	Published Date 2005-08-16	Comment Period Closed 2005-10-05
Docket ID CMS-1506-FC	Title Changes to the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and CY 2007 Payment Rates and Changes to the Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System in CY 2007	Published Date 2006-11-24	Comment Period Closed 2007-01-23
Docket ID CMS-1506-P	Title Proposed Changes to the Hospital Outpatient PPS and CY 2007 Rates; Proposed CY 2007 Update to the ASC Covered Procedures List; and Proposed Changes to the ASC Payment System and CY 2008 Payment Rates	Published Date 2006-08-23	Comment Period Closed 2006-10-10
Docket ID CMS-1506-P2	Title Proposed Changes to the ASC Payment System CY 2008 Payment (PART OF CMS-1506-P)	Published Date 2006-08-23	Comment Period Closed 2006-11-06
Docket ID CMS-1512-PN	Title Five Year Review of Work Relative Value Units Under the Physician Fee Schedule and Proposed Changes to the Practice Expense Methodology***	Published Date 2006-06-29	Comment Period Closed 2006-08-21
Docket ID CMS-1529-P	Title Prospective Payment System for Long-Term Care Hospitals RY 2008: Proposed Annual Payment Rate Updates, Policy Changes, Clarifications, and Hospital Direct and Indirect Graduate Medical Education Payments	Published Date 2007-02-01	Comment Period Closed 2007-03-26
Docket ID CMS-1531-IFC	Title Special Medicare GME Affiliations for a Teaching Hospital Affected by a Disaster (Katrina Rule)	Published Date 2006-04-12	Comment Period Closed 2006-06-12
Docket ID CMS-1539-P	Title Hospice Wage Index for FY 2008	Published Date 2007-05-01	Comment Period Closed 2007-07-02
Docket ID CMS-1540-P	Title Prospective Payment System for Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities for FY 2007	Published Date 2006-05-15	Comment Period Closed 2006-07-07
Docket ID CMS-1541-FC	Title Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update for CY 2008 (Includes Refinements)	Published Date 2007-08-29	Comment Period Closed 2007-10-29
Docket ID CMS-1541-P	Title Home Health Prospective Payment System Refinements and Rate Update for CY 2008	Published Date 2007-05-04	Comment Period Closed 2007-06-26
Docket ID CMS-1545-P	Title Prospective Payment System and Consolidated Billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities: Update for FY 2008	Published Date 2007-04-30	Comment Period Closed 2007-06-29
Docket ID CMS-1727-P	Title Provider Reimbursement Determinations and Appeals	Published Date 2004-06-25	Comment Period Closed 2004-08-24
Docket ID CMS-1810-IFC	Title Physicians' Referrals to Health Care Entities with Which They Have Financial Relationships-Phase II	Published Date 2004-03-26	Comment Period Closed 2004-06-24
Docket ID CMS-1910-IFC	Title Rural Health Clinic: Amendments to Participation Requirements and Payment Provisions, and Establishment of a Quality Assessment and Improvement Program; Repeal of Previous Final Rule	Published Date 2006-09-22	Comment Period Closed 2006-11-21
Docket ID CMS-2150-NC	Title Request for Information on Benefit-Specific Waiting Periods	Published Date 2004-12-30	Comment Period Closed 2005-01-30
Docket ID CMS-2158-P	Title HIPAA Titles I and IV: Tolling Certain Time Periods and Interactions with Family and Medical Leave Act	Published Date 2004-12-30	Comment Period Closed 2005-02-28
Docket ID CMS-2175-IFC	Title Medicaid Program; Time Limitation on Recordkeeping Requirements Under the Drug Rebate Program	Published Date 2004-01-06	Comment Period Closed 2004-03-08
Docket ID CMS-2198-P	Title DSH Hospital Programs	Published Date 2005-08-26	Comment Period Closed 2005-10-25
Docket ID CMS-2213-P	Title Clarification of Outpatient Clinic and Hospital Facility Services Definition and Upper Payment Limit	Published Date 2007-09-28	Comment Period Closed 2007-10-29
Docket ID CMS-2228-PN	Title Application by the TUV Healthcare Specialists (TUVHS) for Deeming Authority for Hospitals	Published Date 2006-01-27	Comment Period Closed 2006-02-27
Docket ID CMS-2231-IFC	Title State Allotments for Payment of Medicare Part B Premiums for Qualifying Individuals: Fiscal Year 2006***	Published Date 2006-04-28	Comment Period Closed 2006-06-27
Docket ID CMS-2238-FC	Title Medicaid Prescription Drugs--Average Manufacturer Price	Published Date 2007-07-17	Comment Period Closed 2008-01-02
Docket ID CMS-2238-FC3	Title Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and FY 2008 Rates	Published Date 2007-08-22	Comment Period Closed 2007-11-20
Docket ID CMS-2238-P	Title Medicaid Prescription Drugs Average Manufacture Price	Published Date 2006-12-22	Comment Period Closed 2007-02-20
Docket ID CMS-2256-PN	Title Application by the Community Health Accreditation Program (CHAP) for Continued Deeming Authority for Home Health Agencies (HHAs)	Published Date 2004-09-24	Comment Period Closed 2004-10-25
Docket ID CMS-2257-IFC	Title Citizenship Documentation Requirements	Published Date 2006-07-12	Comment Period Closed 2006-08-11
Docket ID CMS-2258-FC	Title Cost Limits for Governmentally-Operated Providers	Published Date 2007-05-29	Comment Period Closed 2007-07-13
Docket ID CMS-2258-P	Title Cost Limit for Providers Operated by Units of Government and Provisions to Ensure the Integrity of Federal-State Financial Partnership	Published Date 2007-01-18	Comment Period Closed 2007-03-19
Docket ID CMS-2261-P	Title Rehabilitation Services: State Plan Option	Published Date 2007-08-13	Comment Period Closed 2007-10-12
Docket ID CMS-2266-P	Title Waiver of Disapproval of Nurse Aide Training Program in Certain Cases and Nurse Aide Petition for Removal of Information for Single Finding of Neglect	Published Date 2007-11-23	Comment Period Closed 2007-12-23
Docket ID CMS-2268-P	Title Establishment of Revisit User Fee program for Medicare Survey and Certification Activities	Published Date 2007-06-29	Comment Period Closed 2007-08-27
Docket ID CMS-2275-P	Title Health Care-Related Taxes	Published Date 2007-03-23	Comment Period Closed 2007-05-22
Docket ID CMS-2287-P	Title Elimination of Reimbursement under Medicaid for School-Based Administration Expenditures and Certain Transportation Costs	Published Date 2007-09-07	Comment Period Closed 2007-11-06
Docket ID CMS-3017-IFC	Title Conditions for Coverage of Power Mobility Devices, Including Powered Wheelchairs and Power-Operated Vehicles (Scooters)	Published Date 2005-08-26	Comment Period Closed 2005-11-25
Docket ID CMS-3064-P	Title Organ Procurement Organization Conditions for Coverage	Published Date 2005-02-04	Comment Period Closed 2005-06-05
Docket ID CMS-3112-NC	Title Medicare Program; CY 2004 Review of the Appropriateness of Payment Amounts for New Technology Intraocular Lenses (NTIOLs) Furnished by Ambulatory Surgical Centers (ASCs)	Published Date 2004-07-23	Comment Period Closed 2004-08-23
Docket ID CMS-3121-P	Title Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Requirements for Long Term Care Facilities; Nursing Services; Posting of Nurse Staffing Information	Published Date 2004-02-27	Comment Period Closed 2004-04-27
Docket ID CMS-3122-P	Title Hospital Conditions of Participation: History and Physical Examinations; Authentication of Verbal Orders; Securing Medications; and Post-anesthesia Evaluations	Published Date 2005-03-25	Comment Period Closed 2005-05-24
Docket ID CMS-3142-NC	Title Medicare Program; Evaluation Criteria and Standards for Quality Improvement Program Contracts	Published Date 2004-07-23	Comment Period Closed 2004-08-23
Docket ID CMS-3144-NC	Title CY 2005 Review of the Appropriateness of Payment Amounts for New Technology Intraocular Lenses (NTIOLs) Furnished by Ambulatory Surgical Centers (ASCs)	Published Date 2005-09-30	Comment Period Closed 2005-10-31
Docket ID CMS-3145-IFC	Title Fire Safety Requirements for Certain Health Care Facilities; Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizer Amendment	Published Date 2005-03-25	Comment Period Closed 2005-05-24
Docket ID CMS-3181-PN	Title Application by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) for Continued Recognition as a National Accreditation Program for Accrediting Entities to Furnish Outpatient Diabetes Self-Management Training	Published Date 2007-05-25	Comment Period Closed 2007-06-25
Docket ID CMS-3191-P	Title Fire Safety Requirements for Long-Term Care Facilities: Automatic Sprinkler Systems	Published Date 2006-10-27	Comment Period Closed 2006-12-26
Docket ID CMS-3198-P	Title Immunization Standard for Long-Term Care Facilities	Published Date 2005-08-15	Comment Period Closed 2005-08-30
Docket ID CMS-3818-P	Title End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Conditions for Coverage	Published Date 2005-02-04	Comment Period Closed 2005-05-05
Docket ID CMS-3835-P	Title Hospital Conditions of Participation: Requirements for Approval and Reapproval of Transplant Centers to Perform Organ Transplants	Published Date 2005-02-04	Comment Period Closed 2005-06-06
Docket ID CMS-3844-P	Title Hospice Care Conditions of Participation	Published Date 2005-05-27	Comment Period Closed 2005-07-26
Docket ID CMS-3887-P	Title Revisions to Conditions for Coverage for Ambulatory Surgical Centers	Published Date 2007-08-31	Comment Period Closed 2007-10-30
Docket ID CMS-4004-FC	Title Expedited Determination Procedures for Provider Service Terminations (BIPA 521)	Published Date 2004-11-26	Comment Period Closed 2005-01-25
Docket ID CMS-4041-IFC	Title Modifications to Medicare Managed Care Rules	Published Date 2004-12-30	Comment Period Closed 2005-02-28
Docket ID CMS-4064-IFC	Title Revisions to the Appeals Process for Initial Claim Determinations	Published Date 2005-03-08	Comment Period Closed 2005-05-09
Docket ID CMS-4067-PN	Title Application by the Utilization Review Accreditation Commission (URAC) for Deeming Authority for M C	Published Date 2004-08-27	Comment Period Closed 2004-10-25
Docket ID CMS-4068-P	Title Medicare Program; Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit	Published Date 2004-08-03	Comment Period Closed 2004-10-04
Docket ID CMS-4069-P	Title Medicare Program; Establishment of the Medicare Advantage Program	Published Date 2004-08-03	Comment Period Closed 2004-10-02
Docket ID CMS-4105-P	Title Notification Procedures for Hospital Discharges	Published Date 2006-04-05	Comment Period Closed 2006-06-05
Docket ID CMS-4119-P	Title Medicare Part D Data	Published Date 2006-10-18	Comment Period Closed 2006-12-18
Docket ID CMS-4121-P	Title Prohibition of Midyear Benefit Enhancements for Medicare Advantage Organizations Offering Plans in Calendar Year 2007 and Subsequent Calendar Years	Published Date 2006-09-01	Comment Period Closed 2006-10-31
Docket ID CMS-4124-P	Title Medicare Advantage and Part D Prescription Drug Contract Determinations, Appeals, and Intermediate Sanctions Processes (Compliance Rule)	Published Date 2007-05-25	Comment Period Closed 2007-07-24
Docket ID CMS-4129-P	Title Special Enrollment Period and Medicare Premium Changes	Published Date 2007-09-28	Comment Period Closed 2007-11-27
Docket ID CMS-4130-P	Title Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit	Published Date 2007-05-25	Comment Period Closed 2007-07-24
Docket ID CMS-6006-P	Title Surety Bond Requirement for Suppliers of Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies (DMEPOS)	Published Date 2007-08-01	Comment Period Closed 2007-10-01
Docket ID CMS-6019-P	Title Revised Civil Money Penalties, Assessments, Exclusions, and Related Appeals Procedures	Published Date 2005-08-04	Comment Period Closed 2005-10-02
Docket ID CMS-6022-P	Title Termination of Non-Random Prepayment Medical Review	Published Date 2005-10-07	Comment Period Closed 2005-12-06
Docket ID CMS-6025-P	Title Limitation on Recoupment of Overpayment	Published Date 2006-09-22	Comment Period Closed 2006-11-21
Docket ID CMS-6026-IFC	Title Payment Error Rate Measurement (PERM) Program	Published Date 2005-10-05	Comment Period Closed 2005-11-04
Docket ID CMS-6026-IFC2	Title Payment Error Rate Measurement (PERM) Program	Published Date 2006-08-28	Comment Period Closed 2006-09-27
Docket ID CMS-6272-IFC	Title Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) Amendments	Published Date 2006-02-24	Comment Period Closed 2006-04-25

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