Regulations: CMS issues wage indices, payment rates, and corrections for 2009 IPPS
Medicare Weekly Update, October 7, 2008
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CMS issues wage indices, payment rates, and corrections for fiscal year (FY) 2009 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS)
On October 3, CMS published in the Federal Register a notice providing the wage indices, hospital reclassifications, standardized amounts, and other information related to the FY 2009 IPPS. On the same day, CMS also published in the Federal Register a correction to several technical and typographical errors in the FY 2009 IPPS final rule.
View the notice.
View the correction.
View the FY 2009 IPPS final rule (as previously published on August 19).
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