Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update for CY 2014, Home Health Quality Reporting Requirements, and Cost Allocation of Home Health Survey Expenses Correction

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#  Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update for CY 2014, Home Health Quality Reporting Requirements, and Cost Allocation of Home Health Survey Expenses Correction

**AGENCY:**

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), HHS.

**ACTION:**

Proposed rule; correction.

**SUMMARY:**

This document corrects technical errors that appeared in the proposed rule with comment period titled “Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update for CY 2014, Home Health Quality Reporting Requirements, and Cost Allocation of Home Health Survey Expenses” published on July 3, 2013.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**

Elmer Barksdale, (410) 786-1943.

**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**

**I. Background**

In FR Doc. 2013-15766, published on Wednesday, July 3, 2013 (78 FR 40272), there was an error that is identified and corrected in the Correction of Errors section below.

**II. Summary of Errors**

In section “VI.G. *Accounting Statement and Table”* of the Regulatory Impact Analysis section, in the Transfers column of Table 31, under the heading Medicare HH Survey & Certification Costs, we inadvertently made a typographical error when we listed the amount for the Annualized Monetized Transfers. Specifically, we stated that the amount was “−$18.6 Million” instead of “$18.6 Million.”

**IV. Correction of Errors**

In FR Doc. 2013-15766, published on July 3, 2013, on page 40308, in the Transfers column of Table 31, under the heading Medicare “HH Survey & Certification Costs”, the amount “−$18.6 Million” is corrected to read “$18.6 Million.”

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Program No. 93.773, Medicare—Hospital Insurance; and Program No. 93.774, Medicare—Supplementary Medical Insurance Program)

Dated: July 2, 2013.

Jennifer M. Cannistra,

Executive Secretary to the Department, Department of Health and Human Services.