# Medicare Program; Changes to the FY 1999 Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Wage Index and Standardized Amounts Resulting From Approved Requests for Wage Data Revisions
> **Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services** · Final rule. · Published 1999-02-25 · 64 FR 9378
## Document
- **Document number:** 99-4506
- **Category:** medicare
- **Sub-agency:** Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 64 FR 9378
- **CFR reference:** 42 CFR 412
- **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.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1999/02/25/99-4506/medicare-program-changes-to-the-fy-1999-hospital-inpatient-prospective-payment-wage-index-and)
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