Medicare program; schedule of limits on hospital per diem inpatient general routine operating costs--Health Care Financing Administration. Final notice.
This notice sets forth a schedule of limits on hospital per deim inpatient general routine operating costs that may be reimbursed under Medicare beginning October 1, 1981. This is a special revision of the schedule, not an annual update, and replaces the current schedule, which was published in the Federal Register on June 30, 1981 (46 FR 33637). It incorporates two changes required by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981: . The limits are lowered from 112 percent of mean costs to 108 percent; and . The limits are revised to reflect a reduction in the nursing salary differential. As required by statute, this notice also has a special provision for its effective date.
D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006761:Hospitals; D007349:Insurance, Health, Reimbursement / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006278:Medicare / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States