Public Health. Part412:Prospective payment systems for inpatient hospital services. Section412.102:Special treatment: Hospitals located in areas that are changing from urban to rural as a result of a geographic redesignation.
An urban hospital that was part of an MSA, but was redesignated as rural as a result of the most recent OMB standards for delineating statistical areas adopted by CMS, may receive an adjustment to its rural Federal payment amount for operating costs for 2