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Medicare Program; FY 2026 Hospice Wage Index and Payment Rate Update and Hospice Quality Reporting Program Requirements; Correction
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services published this final rule in the Federal Register on September 4, 2025. It took effect on October 1, 2025.
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What the agency says
This document corrects typographical errors in the final rule that appeared in the August 5, 2025 Federal Register titled "Medicare Program; FY 2026 Hospice Wage Index and Payment Rate Update and Hospice Quality Reporting Program Requirements" (hereinafter referred to as the "FY 2026 Hospice final rule"). The effective date of the FY 2026 Hospice final rule is October 1, 2025.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2025-16960
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Final rule; correction
- Agency
- Health and Human Services Department; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Published
- September 4, 2025
- Takes effect
- October 1, 2025
- Dates
- This correction is effective October 1, 2025.
- Docket
- CMS-1835-CN
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 0938-AV49
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 42 CFR 418
- Significant
- Yes, under Executive Order 12866
- Pages
- 1
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