[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 110 (Wednesday, June 8, 2022)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 34779]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-12263]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary

32 CFR Part 199

[Docket ID: DoD-2020-HA-0040; and DoD-2020-HA-0050]
RIN 0720-AB81; 0720-AB82; and 0720-AB83


TRICARE Coverage and Reimbursement of Certain Services Resulting 
From Temporary Program Changes in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic; 
Correction

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health 
Affairs, Department of Defense (DoD).

ACTION: Final rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: The DoD is correcting a final rule that appeared in the 
Federal Register on June 1, 2022. The Assistant Secretary of Defense 
for Health Affairs issued this final rule related to certain provisions 
of three TRICARE interim final rules (IFRs) with request for comments 
issued in 2020 in response to the novel coronavirus disease 2019 
(COVID-19) public health emergency (PHE). Subsequent to publication of 
the final rule, DoD discovered an error in the preamble. This document 
corrects that error.

DATES: This final rule correction is effective on July 1, 2022.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Erica Ferron, Defense Health Agency, 
Medical Benefits and Reimbursement Section, 303-676-3626 or 
[email protected]. Sharon Seelmeyer, Defense Health Agency, 
Medical Benefits and Reimbursement Section, 303-676-3690 or 
[email protected], Diagnosis Related Groups, Hospital 
Value Based Purchasing, Long Term Care Hospitals, and New Technology 
Add-On Payments.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In FR Doc. 2022-10545 appearing at 87 FR 
33001-33015 in the Federal Register of Wednesday, June 1, 2022, the 
following corrections are made: On page 33007, in the third column, in 
section III.B.a.1, correct the first paragraph to read: ``The IFR 
temporarily waived the regulatory requirement that an individual be an 
inpatient of a hospital for not less than three consecutive calendar 
days before discharge from the hospital (three-day prior hospital stay) 
for coverage of a SNF admission for the duration of the COVID-19 
national emergency, consistent with a similar waiver under Medicare and 
TRICARE's statutory requirement to have a SNF benefit like Medicare's. 
The waiver will terminate when the President's national emergency for 
COVID-19 is terminated.''

    Dated: June 2, 2022.
Aaron T. Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 2022-12263 Filed 6-7-22; 8:45 am]
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