tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 8

Hospitals: SCHEDULE SLIPS FOR OUTLIER RULE

A new rule limiting outlier payments to hospitals will come out soon, but as a proposed rule rather than an immediately effective interim final rule, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Tom Scully told reporters Feb. 20. The final rule will come out about April 1, after a 30-day comment period, he predicted. This schedule is considerably delayed compared to Scully’s original stated intent of issuing an interim final rule on Feb. 1. In a Feb. 10 letter, 10 members of the House, Democrats and Republicans, pushed Scully to go slower. “By immediately enforcing” an interim...

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