title: Medicare Program; OBRA '87 conforming amendments; correction--HCFA. Final rule; correction.
abstract: Federal Register document No. 91-4415, beginning on page 8832 of the issue of Friday March 1, 1991, conformed numerous sections of the HCFA regulations with self-executing provisions of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987. A one-page revision, dealing with the application of the Medicare blood deductible, was unintentionally omitted from column 2 of page 8852, where only the heading "P. Part 489" appears. Also omitted was a conforming change needed in section 482.12(c)(1)(iv) to reflect the amendment made by section 9336(a) of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986 (Pub. L. 99-509). Section 9336(a) removed the provision that limited Medicare coverage of optometrist services to aphakia. This means that any optometrist services permitted by State medical practice laws are now covered. This notice corrects the omissions by publishing the amendment to part 489, which was discussed in section "D" of the preamble in the first column of page 8834, and including the revision of section 482.12(e)(1)(iv). The notice also makes numerous other minor corrections.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D006801:Humans; D006278:Medicare / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States