[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 106 (Wednesday, June 3, 2015)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 31485]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-13434]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

42 CFR Part 413


Principles of Reasonable Cost Reimbursement; Payment for End-
Stage Renal Disease Services; Optional Prospectively Determined Payment 
Rates for Skilled Nursing Facilities

CFR Correction

    In Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Parts 1 to 399, 
revised as of October 1, 2014, make the following two corrections:

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1. On page 817, in Sec.  413.89, reinstate paragraph (h)(1)(iii) to 
read as follows:


Sec.  413.89  Bad debts, charity, and courtesy allowances.

* * * * *
    (h) * * *
    (iii) For cost reporting periods beginning during fiscal year 2000, 
by 45 percent; and
* * * * *

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2. On page 876, in Sec.  413.337, reinstate paragraph (e) to read as 
follows:


Sec.  413.337  Methodology for calculating the prospective payment 
rates.

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    (e) Pursuant to section 101 of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP 
Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999 (BBRA) as revised by section 314 
of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and 
Protection Act of 2000 (BIPA), using the best available data, the 
Secretary will issue a new regulation with a newly refined case-mix 
classification system to better account for medically complex patients. 
Upon issuance of the new regulation, the temporary increases in payment 
for certain high cost patients will no longer be applicable.

[FR Doc. 2015-13434 Filed 6-2-15; 8:45 am]
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