Medicare Program; Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems; Quality Reporting Programs; Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating; Hospital Price Transparency; and Notice of Closure of a Teaching Hospital and Opportunity To Apply for Available Slots; Correction

Document 2026-03578 is a Final Rule published by the Department of Health and Human Services in the Federal Register on February 23, 2026, with an effective date of February 23, 2026. This document corrects technical errors in the final rule with comment period that appeared in the November 25, 2025 issue of the Federal Register titled "Medicare Program: Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems; Quality Reporting Programs; Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating; Hospital Price Transparency; and Notice of Closure of a Teaching Hospital and Opportunity To Apply for Available Slots" (hereinafter referred to as the "CY 2026 OPPS/ASC final rule with comment period"). The effective date of the CY 2026 OPPS/ASC final rule with comment period was January 1, 2026. View the original at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/02/23/2026-03578/medicare-program-hospital-outpatient-prospective-payment-and-ambulatory-surgical-center-payment.

No. Document 2026-03578 is not classified as economically significant under Executive Order 12866. Economically significant rules require OIRA review and are estimated to have impacts of $100 million or more per year.