PMID- 18949883 OWN - HSR STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20081031 LR - 20191210 IS - 0097-6326 (Print) IS - 0097-6326 (Linking) VI - 73 IP - 154 DP - 2008 Aug 8 TI - Medicare program; prospective payment system and consolidated billing for skilled nursing facilities for FY 2009. Final rule. PG - 46415-62 AB - This final rule updates the payment rates used under the prospective payment system (PPS) for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), for fiscal year (FY) 2009. It also discusses our ongoing analysis of nursing home staff time measurement data collected in the Staff Time and Resource Intensity Verification (STRIVE) project. Finally, this final rule makes technical corrections in the regulations text with respect to Medicare bad debt payments to SNFs and the reference to the definition of urban and rural as applied to SNFs. CN - Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), HHS LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - United States TA - Fed Regist JT - Federal register JID - 7808722 MH - Accounts Payable and Receivable MH - Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. MH - Diagnosis-Related Groups/economics MH - Humans MH - Medicare/*economics/legislation & jurisprudence MH - Nursing Homes/*economics/legislation & jurisprudence MH - Prospective Payment System/*economics/legislation & jurisprudence MH - Skilled Nursing Facilities/*economics/legislation & jurisprudence MH - Subacute Care/economics/legislation & jurisprudence MH - United States EDAT- 2008/10/28 09:00 MHDA- 2008/11/01 09:00 CRDT- 2008/10/28 09:00 PHST- 2008/10/28 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2008/11/01 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2008/10/28 09:00 [entrez] PST - ppublish SO - Fed Regist. 2008 Aug 8;73(154):46415-62.