42 C.F.R. 42 CFR--PART 412


Title 42 - Public Health


Amendment from August 18, 2006

42 CFR--PART 412
View Printed Federal Register page 71 FR 48408 in PDF format.

Amendment(s) published August 18, 2006, in 71 FR 48408


Effective Date(s): October 1, 2006

2. Section 412.23 is amended by—

A. Revising paragraph (b)(2)(i) introductory text.

B. Revising paragraph (b)(2)(ii).

The revisions read as follows:

§ 412.23   Excluded hospitals: Classifications.

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(i) For cost reporting periods beginning on or after July 1, 2004 and before July 1, 2005, the hospital has served an inpatient population of whom at least 50 percent, and for cost reporting periods beginning on or after July 1, 2005 and before July 1, 2007, the hospital has served an inpatient population of whom at least 60 percent, and for cost reporting periods beginning on or after July 1, 2007 and before July 1, 2008, the hospital has served an inpatient population of whom at least 65 percent required intensive rehabilitative services for treatment of one or more of the conditions specified at paragraph (b)(2)(iii) of this section. A patient with a comorbidity, as defined at §412.602, may be included in the inpatient population that counts toward the required applicable percentage if—

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(ii) For cost reporting periods beginning on or after July 1, 2008, the hospital has served an inpatient population of whom at least 75 percent required intensive rehabilitative services for treatment of one or more of the conditions specified in paragraph (b)(2)(iii) of this section. A patient with a comorbidity as described in paragraph (b)(2)(i) of this section is not included in the inpatient population that counts toward the required 75 percent.

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