[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 42, Volume 2]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 42CFR419.20]

[Page 794]
 
                         TITLE 42--PUBLIC HEALTH
 
                             HUMAN SERVICES
 
PART 419--PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT SYSTEM FOR HOSPITAL OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT SERVICES--Table of Contents
 
Subpart B--Categories of Hospitals and Services Subject to and Excluded 
         From the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System
 
Sec. 419.20  Hospitals subject to the hospital outpatient prospective payment system.


    (a) Applicability. The hospital outpatient prospective payment 
system is applicable to any hospital participating in the Medicare 
program, except those specified in paragraph (b) of this section, for 
services furnished on or after August 1, 2000.
    (b) Hospitals excluded from the outpatient prospective payment 
system. (1) Those services furnished by Maryland hospitals that are paid 
under a cost containment waiver in accordance with section 1814(b)(3) of 
the Act are excluded from the hospital outpatient prospective payment 
system.
    (2) Critical access hospitals (CAHs) are excluded from the hospital 
outpatient prospective payment system.
    (3) A hospital located outside one of the 50 States, the District of 
Columbia, and Puerto Rico is excluded from the hospital outpatient 
prospective payment system.
    (4) A hospital of the Indian Health Service.

[65 FR 18542, Apr. 7, 2000, as amended at 66 FR 59922, Nov. 30, 2001]