Part 412 - Prospective Payment Systems for Inpatient Hospital Services  


Subpart A - General Provisions
§ 412.1 - Scope of part.
§ 412.2 - Basis of payment.
§ 412.3 - Admissions.
§ 412.4 - Discharges and transfers.
§ 412.6 - Cost reporting periods subject to the prospective payment systems.
§ 412.8 - Publication of schedules for determining prospective payment rates.
§ 412.10 - Changes in the DRG classification system.
Subpart B - Hospital Services Subject to and Excluded From the Prospective Payment Systems for Inpatient Operating Costs and Inpatient Capital-Related Costs
§ 412.20 - Hospital services subject to the prospective payment systems.
§ 412.22 - Excluded hospitals and hospital units: General rules.
§ 412.23 - Excluded hospitals: Classifications.
§ 412.24 - xxx
§ 412.25 - Excluded hospital units: Common requirements.
§ 412.27 - Excluded psychiatric units: Additional requirements.
§ 412.29 - Classification criteria for payment under the inpatient rehabilitation facility prospective payment system.
§ 412.30 - [Reserved]
Subpart C - Conditions for Payment Under the Prospective Payment Systems for Inpatient Operating Costs and Inpatient Capital-Related Costs
§ 412.40 - General requirements.
§ 412.42 - Limitations on charges to beneficiaries.
§ 412.44 - Medical review requirements: Admissions and quality review.
§ 412.46 - Medical review requirements.
§ 412.48 - Denial of payment as a result of admissions and quality review.
§ 412.50 - Furnishing of inpatient hospital services directly or under arrangements.
§ 412.52 - Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.
Subpart D - Basic Methodology for Determining Prospective Payment Federal Rates for Inpatient Operating Costs
§ 412.60 - DRG classification and weighting factors.
§ 412.62 - Federal rates for inpatient operating costs for fiscal year 1984.
§ 412.63 - Federal rates for inpatient operating costs for Federal fiscal years 1984 through 2004.
§ 412.64 - Federal rates for inpatient operating costs for Federal fiscal year 2005 and subsequent fiscal years.
Subpart E - Determination of Transition Period Payment Rates for the Prospective Payment System for Inpatient Operating Costs
§ 412.70 - General description.
§ 412.71 - Determination of base-year inpatient operating costs.
§ 412.72 - Modification of base-year costs.
§ 412.73 - Determination of the hospital-specific rate based on a Federal fiscal year 1982 base period.
§ 412.75 - Determination of the hospital-specific rate for inpatient operating costs based on a Federal fiscal year 1987 base period.
§ 412.76 - Recovery of excess transition period payment amounts resulting from unlawful claims.
§ 412.77 - Determination of the hospital-specific rate for inpatient operating costs for sole community hospitals based on a Federal fiscal year 1996 base period.
§ 412.78 - Determination of the hospital-specific rate for inpatient operating costs for sole community hospitals based on a Federal fiscal year 2006 base period.
§ 412.79 - Determination of the hospital-specific rate for inpatient operating costs for Medicare-dependent, small rural hospitals based on a Federal fiscal year 2002 base period.
Subpart F - Payments for Outlier Cases, Special Treatment Payment for New Technology, and Payment Adjustment for Certain Replaced Devices
Payment for Outlier Cases
§ 412.80 - Outlier cases: General provisions.
§ 412.82 - Payment for extended length-of-stay cases (day outliers).
§ 412.84 - Payment for extraordinarily high-cost cases (cost outliers).
Payment Adjustment for Certain Replaced Devices
§ 412.89 - Payment adjustment for certain replaced devices.
Payment Adjustment for Certain Clinical Trial Cases and Expanded Access Use Immunotherapy
§ 412.83 - Payment for extraordinarily high-cost day outliers.
§ 412.85 - xxx
§ 412.86 - [Reserved]
Additional Special Payment for Certain New Technology
§ 412.87 - Additional payment for new medical services and technologies: General provisions.
§ 412.88 - Additional payment for new medical service or technology.
Subpart G - Special Treatment of Certain Facilities Under the Prospective Payment System for Inpatient Operating Costs
§ 412.90 - General rules.
§ 412.92 - Special treatment: Sole community hospitals.
§ 412.96 - Special treatment: Referral centers.
§ 412.98 - [Reserved]
§ 412.100 - Special treatment: Kidney transplant programs.
§ 412.101 - Special treatment: Inpatient hospital payment adjustment for low-volume hospitals.
§ 412.102 - Special treatment: Hospitals located in areas that are changing from urban to rural as a result of a geographic redesignation.
§ 412.103 - Special treatment: Hospitals located in urban areas and that apply for reclassification as rural.
§ 412.104 - Special treatment: Hospitals with high percentage of ESRD discharges.
§ 412.105 - Special treatment: Hospitals that incur indirect costs for graduate medical education programs.
§ 412.106 - Special treatment: Hospitals that serve a disproportionate share of low-income patients.
§ 412.107 - Special treatment: Hospitals that receive an additional update for FYs 1998 and 1999.
§ 412.108 - Special treatment: Medicare-dependent, small rural hospitals.
§ 412.109 - Special treatment: Essential access community hospitals (EACHs).
Subpart H - Payments to Hospitals Under the Prospective Payment Systems
§ 412.110 - Total Medicare payment.
§ 412.112 - Payments determined on a per case basis.
§ 412.113 - Other payments.
§ 412.115 - Additional payments.
§ 412.116 - Method of payment.
§ 412.120 - Reductions to total payments.
§ 412.125 - Effect of change of ownership on payments under the prospective payment systems.
§ 412.130 - Retroactive adjustments for incorrectly excluded hospitals and units.
§ 412.140 - Participation, data submission, and validation requirements under the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) Program.
Subpart I - Adjustments to the Base Operating DRG Payment Amounts Under the Prospective Payment Systems for Inpatient Operating Costs
§ 412.150 - Basis and scope of subpart.
Payment Adjustments Under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program
§ 412.152 - Definitions for the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program.
§ 412.154 - Payment adjustments under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program.
§§ 412.155--412.159 - [Reserved]
Incentive Payments Under the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program
§ 412.160 - Definitions for the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program.
§ 412.161 - Applicability of the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program
§ 412.162 - Process for reducing the base operating DRG payment amount and applying the value-based incentive payment amount adjustment under the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program.
§ 412.163 - Process for making hospital-specific performance information under the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program available to the public.
§ 412.164 - Measure selection under the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program.
§ 412.165 - Performance scoring under the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program.
§ 412.167 - Appeal under the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program.
§ 412.168 - Special rules for FY 2022 and FY 2023.-
§ 412.169 - [Reserved]
§§ 412.168--412.169 - [Reserved]
Payment Adjustments Under the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program
§ 412.170 - Definitions for the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program.
§ 412.172 - Payment adjustments under the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program.
§ 412.190 - xxx
Subpart J - XXX
Subpart K - Prospective Payment System for Inpatient Operating Costs for Hospitals Located in Puerto Rico
§ 412.200 - General provisions.
§ 412.204 - Payment to hospitals located in Puerto Rico.
§ 412.208 - Puerto Rico rates for Federal fiscal year 1988.
§ 412.210 - Puerto Rico rates for Federal fiscal years 1989 through 2003.
§ 412.211 - Puerto Rico rates for Federal fiscal year 2004 and subsequent fiscal years.
§ 412.212 - National rate.
§ 412.220 - Special treatment of certain hospitals located in Puerto Rico.
Subpart L - The Medicare Geographic Classification Review Board
Composition and Procedures
§ 412.246 - MGCRB members.
§ 412.248 - Number of members needed for a decision or a hearing.
§ 412.250 - Sources of MGCRB's authority.
§ 412.252 - Applications.
§ 412.254 - Proceedings before MGCRB.
§ 412.256 - Application requirements.
§ 412.258 - Parties to MGCRB proceeding.
§ 412.260 - Time and place of the oral hearing.
§ 412.262 - Disqualification of an MGCRB member.
§ 412.264 - Evidence and comments in MGCRB proceeding.
§ 412.266 - Availability of wage data.
§ 412.268 - Subpoenas.
§ 412.270 - Witnesses.
§ 412.272 - Record of proceedings before the MGCRB.
§ 412.273 - Withdrawing an application, terminating an approved 3-year reclassification, or canceling a previous withdrawal or termination.
§ 412.274 - Scope and effect of an MGCRB decision.
§ 412.276 - Timing of MGCRB decision and its appeal.
§ 412.278 - Administrator's review.
§ 412.280 - Representation.
Criteria and Conditions for Redesignation
§ 412.230 - Criteria for an individual hospital seeking redesignation to another rural area or an urban area.
§ 412.232 - Criteria for all hospitals in a rural county seeking urban redesignation.
§ 412.234 - Criteria for all hospitals in an urban county seeking redesignation to another urban area.
§ 412.235 - Criteria for all hospitals in a State seeking a statewide wage index redesignation.
§ 412.236 - Alternative criteria for hospitals located in an NECMA.
Subpart M - Prospective Payment System for Inpatient Hospital Capital Costs
Determination of Transition Period Payment Rates for Capital-Related Costs
§ 412.324 - General description.
§ 412.328 - Determining and updating the hospital-specific rate.
§ 412.331 - Determining hospital-specific rates in cases of hospital merger, consolidation, or dissolution.
§ 412.332 - Payment based on the hospital-specific rate.
§ 412.336 - Transition period payment methodologies.
§ 412.340 - Fully prospective payment methodology.
§ 412.344 - Hold-harmless payment methodology.
§ 412.348 - Exception payments.
§ 412.352 - Budget neutrality adjustment.
Basic Methodology for Determining the Federal Rate for Capital-Related Costs
§ 412.308 - Determining and updating the Federal rate.
§ 412.312 - Payment based on the Federal rate.
§ 412.316 - Geographic adjustment factors.
§ 412.320 - Disproportionate share adjustment factor.
§ 412.322 - Indirect medical education adjustment factor.
General Provisions
§ 412.300 - Scope of subpart and definition.
§ 412.302 - Introduction to capital costs.
§ 412.304 - Implementation of the capital prospective payment system.
Special Rules for Puerto Rico Hospitals
§ 412.370 - General provisions for hospitals located in Puerto Rico.
§ 412.374 - Payments to hospitals located in Puerto Rico.
Subpart N - Prospective Payment System for Inpatient Hospital Services of Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities
§ 412.400 - Basis and scope of subpart.
§ 412.402 - Definitions.
§ 412.404 - Conditions for payment under the prospective payment system for inpatient hospital services of psychiatric facilities.
§ 412.405 - Preadmission services as inpatient operating costs under the inpatient psychiatric facility prospective payment system.
§ 412.422 - Basis of payment.
§ 412.424 - Methodology for calculating the Federal per diem payment amount.
§ 412.426 - Transition period.
§ 412.428 - Publication of changes to the inpatient psychiatric facility prospective payment system.
§ 412.432 - Method of payment under the inpatient psychiatric facility prospective payment system.
§ 412.433 - Procedural requirements under the IPFQR Program.
§ 412.434 - Reconsideration and appeals procedures of Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities Quality Reporting (IPFQR) Program decisions.
Subpart O - Prospective Payment System for Long-Term Care Hospitals
§ 412.500 - Basis and scope of subpart.
§ 412.503 - Definitions.
§ 412.505 - Conditions for payment under the prospective payment system for long-term care hospitals.
§ 412.507 - Limitation on charges to beneficiaries.
§ 412.508 - Medical review requirements.
§ 412.509 - Furnishing of inpatient hospital services directly or under arrangement.
§ 412.511 - Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.
§ 412.513 - Patient classification system.
§ 412.515 - LTC-DRG weighting factors.
§ 412.517 - Revision of LTC-DRG group classifications and weighting factors.
§ 412.521 - Basis of payment.
§ 412.522 - Application of site neutral payment rate.
§ 412.523 - Methodology for calculating the Federal prospective payment rates.
§ 412.525 - Adjustments to the Federal prospective payment.
§ 412.526 - Payment provisions for a “subclause (II)” long-term care hospital.
§ 412.529 - Special payment provision for short-stay outliers.
§ 412.531 - Special payment provisions when an interruption of a stay occurs in a long-term care hospital.
§ 412.532 - Special payment provisions for patients who are transferred to onsite providers and readmitted to a long-term care hospital.
§ 412.533 - Transition payments.
§ 412.534 - Special payment provisions for long-term care hospitals-within-hospitals and satellites of long-term care hospitals, effective for discharges occurring in cost reporting periods beginning on or before September 30, 2016.
§ 412.535 - Publication of the Federal prospective payment rates.
§ 412.536 - Special payment provisions for long-term care hospitals and satellites of long-term care hospitals that discharge Medicare patients admitted from a hospital not located in the same building or on the same campus as the long-term care hospital or satellite of the long-term care hospital, effective for discharges occurring on or before September 30, 2016 or in cost reporting periods beginning on or before June 30, 2016.
§ 412.538 - [Reserved]
§ 412.540 - Method of payment for preadmission services under the long-term care hospital prospective payment system.
§ 412.541 - Method of payment under the long-term care hospital prospective payment system.
§ 412.560 - Requirements under the Long-Term Care Hospital Quality Reporting Program (LTCH QRP).
Subpart P - Prospective Payment for Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospitals and Rehabilitation Units
§ 412.600 - Basis and scope of subpart.
§ 412.602 - Definitions.
§ 412.604 - Conditions for payment under the prospective payment system for inpatient rehabilitation facilities.
§ 412.606 - Patient assessments.
§ 412.608 - Patients' rights regarding the collection of patient assessment data.
§ 412.610 - Assessment schedule.
§ 412.612 - Coordination of the collection of patient assessment data.
§ 412.614 - Transmission of patient assessment data.
§ 412.616 - Release of information collected using the patient assessment instrument.
§ 412.618 - Assessment process for interrupted stays.
§ 412.620 - Patient classification system.
§ 412.622 - Basis of payment.
§ 412.624 - Methodology for calculating the Federal prospective payment rates.
§ 412.626 - Transition period.
§ 412.628 - Publication of the Federal prospective payment rates.
§ 412.630 - Limitation on review.
§ 412.632 - Method of payment under the inpatient rehabilitation facility prospective payment system.
§ 412.634 - Requirements under the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF) Quality Reporting Program (QRP).