Health and Human Services Department, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
This document corrects technical errors that appeared in the proposed rule published in the Federal Register on July 25, 2005 entitled "Medicare Program; Proposed Changes to the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Calendar Year 2006 Payment Rates; Proposed Rule."
Document Headings Document headings vary by document type but may contain the following: the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document the number of the CFR title and the number of each part the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly related to the agency docket number / agency internal file number the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions See the Document Drafting Handbook for more details. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 42 CFR Parts 419 and 485 [CMS-1501-CN] RIN 0938-AN46 AGENCY: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), HHS. ACTION: Proposed rule; correction. SUMMARY: This document corrects technical errors that appeared in the proposed rule published in the Federal Register on July 25, 2005 entitled “Medicare Program; Proposed Changes to the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Calendar Year 2006 Payment Rates; Proposed Rule.” FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rebecca Kane, (410) 786-0378. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:   I. Background FR Doc. 05-14448 contains our proposed rule to update the Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System for calendar year (CY) 2006. We have identified a number of technical errors in the “Summary of Errors” section and are correcting them in the “Correction of Errors” section below. II. Summary of Errors A. Corrections Related to the Rural Adjustment Calculation The calendar year (CY) 2006 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) proposed rule that we published in the Federal Register on July 25, 2005 included a proposed 6.6 percent adjustment for rural sole community hospitals. The calculations used to develop the conversion factor and budget neutrality scalar inadvertently incorporated this adjustment as 6.4 percent. The rural adjustment is used in calculations that determine the scalar and conversion factor…
Citation: 70 FR 50680
