# Medicare Program; Hospice Wage Index for Fiscal Year 2008
> **Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services** · Final rule. · Published 2007-08-31 · Effective 2007-10-01 · 72 FR 50214
## Document
- **Document number:** 07-4292
- **Category:** medicare
- **Sub-agency:** Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 72 FR 50214
- **CFR reference:** 42 CFR 418
- **Publication date:** 2007-08-31
- **Effective date:** 2007-10-01
- **HHS docket:** CMS-1539-F
## Abstract

This final rule sets forth the hospice wage index for fiscal year 2008. This final rule also revises the methodology for updating the wage index for rural areas without hospital wage data and provides clarification of selected existing Medicare hospice regulations and policies.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2007/08/31/07-4292/medicare-program-hospice-wage-index-for-fiscal-year-2008)
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