Medicare program; court ordered regulations regarding prospective payment amounts and administrative review will not become effective--HCFA. Notice that regulations will not take effect; removal of regulations.
Interim rules providing for certain adjustments to Medicare propective payment rates and modifications to the provider appeal process were published on July 1, 1985 solely in response to an order of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in Redbud Hospital District v. Heckler, No. C-84-4382 MHP dated June 14, 1985. That portion of the district court order requiring the Secretary to promulgate nationwide regulations was recently stayed by United States to promulgate nationwide regulations was recently stayed by United States Supreme Court Justice Rehnquist, pending the determination of the Secretary's appeal of the case to the United States Court of Appeals for Ninth Circuit. Heckler v. Redbud Hospital District, No. A-32. (Rehnquist, Circuit Justice, July 24, 1985). This document is to notify the public that the interim final rules have, by operation of that decision, been automatically revoked. They will not become effective on August 1, 1985.
D002140:California; D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D006278:Medicare / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D011445:Prospective Payment System / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States