[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 132 (Monday, July 13, 2009)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 33403-33404]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-16507]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

42 CFR Parts 410, 411, 414, 415, and 485

[CMS-1413-CN]
RIN 0938-AP40


Medicare Program; Payment Policies Under the Physician Fee 
Schedule and Other Revisions to Part B for CY 2010; Correction

AGENCY: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), HHS.

ACTION: Correction of proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: This document corrects a technical error in the proposed rule 
entitled ``Medicare Program; Payment Policies Under the Physician Fee 
Schedule and Other Revisions to Part B for CY 2010'' which appears 
elsewhere in this Federal Register.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Diane Milstead, (410) 786-3355.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    In FR Doc. E9-15835 of July 13, 2009, there was a technical error 
that is identified and corrected in the Correction of Errors section 
below.

II. Summary of Errors

    In section V., Regulatory Impact Analysis, of the preamble of the 
proposed rule entitled ``Medicare Program; Payment Policies Under the 
Physician Fee Schedule and Other Revisions to Part B for CY 2010'' that 
is published elsewhere in this Federal Register, we inadvertently 
omitted language regarding the impact of the proposed Physician Fee 
Schedule Update for CY 2010.

III. Correction of Errors

    In FR Doc. E9-15835 of July 13, 2009, to make a correction to 
section V. of the preamble, the Regulatory Impact Analysis, prior to 
the section labeled ``U. Alternatives Considered,'' the following 
language should be inserted:
    ``L. Physician Fee Schedule Update for CY 2010 In section II.P. of 
the proposed rule, we describe our proposal to remove physician-
administered drugs from the definition of physicians' services for 
purposes of calculating allowed and actual expenditures for all years 
since the 1996/1997 base year, and for purposes of calculating the SGR 
for 2010 and all subsequent years. While this proposal would not change 
the

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projected -21.5 percent physician payment rate update for services 
furnished on or after January 1, 2010, this change would reduce the 
discrepancy between actual and target expenditures. Based on the 
President's budget, we estimate this proposal would cost $45.4 billion 
from 2010 to 2014. Projected updates would increase over this same 
period from between -6.3 and -5.4 percent to between -3.1 and +1.4 
percent respectively.''

    Authority: Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Program No. 
93.773, Medicare--Hospital Insurance; and Program No. 93.774, 
Medicare--Supplementary Medical Insurance Program.

    Dated: July 8, 2009.
Ashley Files Flory,
Acting Executive Secretary to the Department.
[FR Doc. E9-16507 Filed 7-8-09; 4:15 pm]
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