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The Area Wage Index of the Medicare Inpatient Hospital Prospective Payment System: Perspectives, Policies, and Choices
This paper summarizes positions of various rural health care advocates regarding actions taken by Congress and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services [formerly Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA)]. It discusses HCFA's attempts to improve the use and understanding of the hospital wage index for Medicare's Prospective Payment System. The paper discusses useful methods to accurately calculate hospital wage indexes.
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