Legislative and Regulatory History

Legislation

CAH Legislative History

Regulations

Federal Register

January 18, 2001, Medicare and Medicaid Program; Hospital Condition of Participation, Anesthesia Services.

September 12, 2000, Vol. 65, No. 177 - Medicare Program: Fee Schedule for Payment of Ambulance Services and Revisions to the Physician Certification Requirements for Coverage of Nonemergency Ambulance Services.

August 1, 2000, Vol. 65, No. 148 – Medicare Program; Provisions of the Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999; Hospital Inpatient Payments and Rates and Costs of Graduate Medical Education; Final Rules.

August 1, 2000, Final Rule - Medicare Program; Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and Fiscal Year 2001 Rates.

May 5, 2000, Vol. 65, No. 88, Proposed Rule – Medicare Program: Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and Fiscal Year 2001 Rates.

HCFA Transmittals/Memoranda

January 16, 2001, Program Memorandum Intermediaries, A-01-09, Exemption of Critical Access Hospital Swing Beds from Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System.

December 19, 2000, Program Memorandum Intermediaries, A-00-97, All-Inclusive Option and Lab Payments.

August 25, 2000, Medicare Hospital Manual, Transmittal 759, Reporting Hospital Outpatient Services Using HCFA Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS).

June 2000, Intermediary Manual, Transmittal 1799, Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program/Requirements for Critical Access Hospital Services and CAH Long-term Care Services (Medicare Hospital Manual Transmittal 757).

April 2000, Intermediaries Transmittal A-00-17, Changes to FY 2000 Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (PPS) Policies as Required by the Medicare, Medicaid, and State Child Health Insurance Program Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999 (BBRA), P.L. 106-113.