---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 412.535"
title: "42"
number: "412.535"
heading: "Publication of the Federal prospective payment rates."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/412.535"
---

# §412.535. Publication of the Federal prospective payment rates.


Except as specified in [paragraph (b)](#b), CMS publishes information pertaining to the long-term care hospital prospective payment system effective for each annual update in the Federal Register.

- (a) For the period beginning on or after July 1, 2003 and ending on June 30, 2008, information on the unadjusted Federal payment rates and a description of the methodology and data used to calculate the payment rates are published on or before May 1 prior to the start of each long-term care hospital prospective payment system rate year which begins July 1, unless for good cause it is published after May 1, but before June 1.
- (b) For the period beginning on July 1, 2008 and ending on September 30, 2009, information of the unadjusted Federal payment rates and a description of the methodology and data used to calculate the payment rates are published on or before May 1 prior to the start of the long-term care hospital prospective payment system rate year which begins July 1, unless for good cause it is published after May 1, but before June 1.
- (c) For the period beginning on or after October 1, 2009, information on the unadjusted Federal payment rates and a description of the methodology and data used to calculate the payment rates are published on or before August 1 prior to the start of the Federal fiscal year which begins October 1, unless for good cause it is published after August 1, but before September 1.
- (d) Information on the LTC-DRG classification and associated weighting factors is published on or before August 1 prior to the beginning of each Federal fiscal year.

## Notes

### Amendments

[68 FR 34163, June 6, 2003, as amended at 73 FR 26839, May 9, 2008]

### Source

Source: 67 FR 56049, Aug. 30, 2002, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1302 and 1395hh.

### Source

Source: 50 FR 12741, Mar. 29, 1985, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[68 FR 34163, June 6, 2003, as amended at 73 FR 26839, May 9, 2008]