Medicare and Medicaid programs;schedules of limits on home health agency costs per visit, hospital inpatient general routine operating costs, and skilled nursing facility inpatient routine service costs--Health Care Financing Administration. General notice.
This document corrects three notices in the Federal Register this year. These notices set forth schedules of limits on costs for home health agencies, hospitals, and skilled nursing facilities. In deriving these limits, we used a wage index to reflect differences in costs that are correlated with are wage differences. Tables of wage index values for urban and rural areas were published in each notice. Due to a reporting error, we used incomplete data to calculate the wage index values for three New England areas. We have since obtained corrected data, and have used this to recalculate the wage index values for these areas. This document sets forth the corrected wage index values.
D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D007349:Insurance, Health, Reimbursement / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D008484:Medicaid / Q000191:economics*; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States