NOTICES

DEPARTMENT OF
PUBLIC WELFARE

Home Health Agency Services

[33 Pa.B. 692]

   The purpose of this notice is to correct typographical errors in the notice that appeared at 32 Pa.B. 6218 (December 14, 2002).

   Procedure code W9065 was incorrectly listed as W0965 and should be replaced with the following:

Procedure	Description	Current	Increased Fee
Code		Fee	Effective 1/1/03
W9065	Speech therapy (29th day and beyond) by a Speech Therapist	$67.00	$77.00

   In addition, procedure codes W0526 and W0527 have been deleted from the Medical Assistance Program Fee Schedule due to zero occurrences as announced at 32 Pa.B. 5809 (November 23, 2002) and, therefore, should not have been included in the notice at 32 Pa.B. 6218. The following procedure codes should be deleted:

Procedure	Description
Code
W0526	Audiological Therapy (days 1-28) by an Audiologist
W0527	Audiological Therapy (29th day and beyond) by an Audiologist

   The Department of Public Welfare will issue a Medical Assistance bulletin to home health agency service providers to advise them of these changes.

Fiscal Note

   The fiscal note was prepared under the authority of section 612 of The Administrative Code of 1929 (71 P. S. § 232).

Contact Person

   Interested persons are invited to submit written comments to this notice within 30 days of this publication to the Department of Public Welfare, Office of Medical Assistance Programs, c/o Deputy Secretary's Office, Attention: Regulations Coordinator, Room 515, Health and Welfare Building, Harrisburg, PA 17120. Persons with a disability may use the AT&T Relay Service, (800) 654-5984 (TDD users) or (800) 654-5988 (voice users).

FEATHER O. HOUSTOUN,   
Secretary

   Fiscal Note: 14-NOT-349. (1) General Fund;

	Outpatient	Capitation
(2)  Implementing Year 2002-03 is	$2,000	$12,000
(3)  1st Succeeding Year 2003-04 is	$3,000	$28,000
2nd Succeeding Year 2004-05 is	$3,000	$30,000
3rd Succeeding Year 2005-06 is	$3,000	$33,000
4th Succeeding Year 2006-07 is	$3,000	$36,000
5th Succeeding Year 2007-08 is	$3,000	$40,000
(4)  2001-02 Program--	$649,055,000	$2,037,376,000
2000-01 Program--	$668,586,000	$1,487,944,000
1999-00 Program--	$622,669,000	$1,384,763,000

   (7)  MA--Outpatient and MA--Capitation; (8) recommends adoption. The additional costs relate only to the corrections printed in this notice and have been included in the current budget.

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 03-176. Filed for public inspection January 31, 2003, 9:00 a.m.]

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