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GAO-01-1048R 1 (2001-08-15)

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       Accountability * Integrity * Reliability
United States General Accounting Office
Washington, DC 20548

         B-288482


         August 15, 2001

         The Honorable Max Baucus
         Chairman
         The Honorable Chuck Grassley
         Ranking Minority Member
         Committee on Finance
         United States Senate

         The Honorable Bill Thomas
         Chairman
         The Honorable Charles Rangel
         Ranking Minority Member
         Committee on Ways and Means
         House of Representatives

         Subject: Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and
                 Medicaid Services: Medicare Program Changes to the Hospital InDatient
                 Prospective Payment Systems and Rates and Costs of Graduate Medical
                 Education: Fiscal Year 2002 Rates; Provisions of the Balanced Budget
                 Refinement Act of 1999; and Provisions of the Medicare, Medicaid, and
                 SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000

         Pursuant to section 801(a) (2) (A) of title 5, United States Code, this is our report on a
         major rule promulgated by the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers
         for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), entitled Medicare Program; Changes to
         the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and Rates and Costs of
         Graduate Medical Education: Fiscal Year 2002 Rates; Provisions of the Balanced
         Budget Refinement Act of 1999; and Provisions of the Medicare, Medicaid, and
         SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000 (RIN: 0938-AK20; 0938-
         AK73; and 0938-AK74). We received the rule on August 1, 2001. It was published in
         the Federal Register as a final rule on August 1, 2001. 66 Fed. Reg. 39828.

         The final rule implements certain statutory provisions relating to Medicare payments
         to hospitals for inpatient services that are contained in the Medicare, Medicaid, and
         SCHIP (State Children's Health Insurance Program) Benefits Improvement and
         Protection Act of 2000.


GAO-01-1048R

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