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MU00.@BFN2699.LTNDM183
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TO: Shared System Coordinators, MEDICARE Coordinators

SUBJECT: Long-term Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment System (PPS)
         Pricer Release, Version 20183
(March 9, 2018)  --ACTION-- refer to Change Request (CR) 10547

This LTCH Pricer release is the production version for the January 2018
release.

It includes the following changes/additions:

- LTCAL183 (update of LTCAL182)

   - changed Site-Neutral calculation to implement CR 10547


- LTDRV183    ** Replaces LTDRV182 **

   - CALL to LTCAL183 module


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A partitioned data set (PDS) of the Version 20183 code
(MU00.@BFN2699.LTNDM183) is at the CMS Data Center for users
to obtain by Connect:Direct (Network DataMover).

The 66 members listed below comprise the Pricer, but only the modules
that changed or are new since the previous release are included in the
PDS.  The changed and new members should be used in conjunction with
the current production Pricer files.

      NAME
      --------
      BLEND152
      IPDRG063
      IPDRG071
      IPDRG080
      IPDRG090
      IPDRG104
      IPDRG110
      IPDRG123
      IPDRG130
      IPDRG141
      IPDRG152
      IPDRG160
      IPDRG170
      IPDRG181
      IPWIX181
      IRFBN091
      IRFBN102
      IRFBN105
      LTCAL032
      LTCAL042
      LTCAL043
      LTCAL058
      LTCAL059
      LTCAL063
      LTCAL064
      LTCAL072
      LTCAL075
      LTCAL080
      LTCAL087
      LTCAL091
      LTCAL094
      LTCAL095
      LTCAL103
      LTCAL105
      LTCAL111
      LTCAL123
      LTCAL130
      LTCAL141
      LTCAL152
      LTCAL154
      LTCAL162
      LTCAL170
      LTCAL183
      LTDRG031
      LTDRG041
      LTDRG057
      LTDRG062
      LTDRG075
      LTDRG080
      LTDRG086
      LTDRG093
      LTDRG095
      LTDRG100
      LTDRG110
      LTDRG123
      LTDRG130
      LTDRG141
      LTDRG152
      LTDRG160
      LTDRG170
      LTDRG181
      LTDRV183
      LTMSA152
      LTWIX182
      MANIFEST
      README

