Medicare Program; Changes to the FY 1999 Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Wage Index and Standardized Amounts Resulting From Approved Requests for Wage Data Revisions
medicare · Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services · Rule · Published 1999-02-25 · 64 FR 9378
Document
Document number
99-4506
Federal Register citation
64 FR 9378
CFR reference
42 CFR 412
Type
Rule
Action
Final rule.
Category
medicare
Sub-agency
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Publication date
1999-02-25
HHS docket
HCFA-1049-F
Abstract
This final rule implements revised wage index values, geographic adjustment factors, operating standardized amounts, and capital Federal rates for hospitals subject to the inpatient prospective payment system. These changes result from requests made by hospitals in response to a final rule with comment period published in the Federal Register on November 19, 1998. These revisions will be implemented on a prospective basis.