title: Medicare program; fiscal year 1988 legislative changes to the inpatient hospital prospective payment system--HCFA. Notice of legislative changes with comment period.
abstract: This notice describes those portions of sections 4002, 4005, 4008, and 4009 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 that affect Federal fiscal year 1988 payments to prospective payment hospitals and hospitals excluded from the prospective payments system. The changes required by this law affect the prospective payment rates; the rate-of increase limits for hospitals excluded from the prospective payment system; the definition of a large urban area; the establishment of a new "regional floor;" the criteria for classification of rural referral centers; and outlier payments for burn cases.
mesh_terms: D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D007350:Insurance, Hospitalization / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006278:Medicare / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D011445:Prospective Payment System / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States