Health Care Financing Administration--Medicare program; clarification of urban location classification in New England. Notice.
In the final notices published June 1, 1979, establishing limits on hospital inpatient general routine operating costs (44 FR 31806) and home health agency per visit costs (44 FR 31814) and the final notice published August 31, 1979, establishing limits on skilled nursing facility inpatient routine service costs (44 FR 51542) under the Medicare program, HCFA adopted the New England County Metropolitan Area definition of urban location classification in New England. Using this definition, four counties, previously classified as urban locations, were classified as non-urban in the notices. This notice is intended to correct the classification of these four counties to urban areas for purposes of application of cost limits to all types of providers of services.
D002391:Catchment Area, Health; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D007349:Insurance, Health, Reimbursement / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006278:Medicare / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D009511:New England