Notice of Decision to Follow a Consent Order Providing for the Discontinued Application of the 1986 Medicare Malpractice Rule and a Reversion to the Pre-1979
Guidance for how HCFA and its fiscal intermediaries will pay certain hospital malpractice insurance cost claims and appeals that are now pending before the intermediaries in accordance with the pre-1979 utilization method.
Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Issue Date: September 29, 1991
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