reopening of the medicare administrative contractor determination under section 405.1885 of title 42, Code of Federal Regulations. (C) The date of the final outcome of the final appeal filed by such hospital with respect to such volume decrease adjustment for such specified cost reporting period. (c) Definitions In this section: (1) Medicare administrative contractor The term medicare administrative contractor means the entity that has entered into a contract with the Secretary of Health and Human Services under section 1874A of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395kk–1 ) to service A/B Medicare Administrative Contractor Jurisdiction K of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services as of July 1, 2016. (2) Medicare-dependent, small rural hospital The term medicare-dependent, small rural hospital has the meaning given such term under section 1886(d)(5)(G)(iv) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395ww(d)(5)(G)(iv) ). (3) Revised volume decrease adjustment payment methodology The term revised volume decrease adjustment payment methodology means the methodology to calculate the volume decrease adjustment that is described in the second sentence of section 412.92(e)(3) of title 42, Code of Federal Regulations (relating to the methodology to calculate the volume decrease adjustment for sole community hospitals (and, pursuant to section 412.108(d)(3) of such title 42, for medicare-dependent, small rural hospitals) that is effective for cost reporting periods beginning on or after October 1, 2017). (4) Sole community hospital The term sole community hospital has the meaning given such term under section 1886(d)(5)(D)(iii) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395ww(d)(5)(D)(iii) ). (5) Specified cost reporting period The term specified cost reporting period means a cost reporting period of a sole community hospital or a medicare-dependent, small rural hospital, as the case may be, that begins during a fiscal year before fiscal year 2018. (6) Volume decrease adjustment The term volume decrease adjustment means