HHS OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL ISSUES REVIEW OF ST. PETER'S UNIVERSITY...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 12, 2008 ;     249 words ......comply with Medicare requirements for reporting wage data in its fiscal year (FY) 2005 Medicare cost report. Specifically, the Hospital understated its wage data by $572,108 and 110,107 hours. Our correction of the Hospital's errors decreased the average hourly wage rate approximately 2 ...

HHS OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL ISSUES REVIEW OF WEST JEFFERSON MEDICAL...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  August 7, 2008 ;     198 words ......Hospital) overstated its wage data by $3.2 million and...participating hospitals by the wage index applicable to the statistical...based on hospitals' wage data reported 4 years earlier...report, the FY 2009 wage index for the Hospital's statistical...hospitals that use ...

A fiscal nor'easter? MedPAC index proposal could mean big losses for some...

Modern Healthcare;  July 23, 2007 ;     672 words ......Advisory Commission to establish a new hospital wage index system is implemented, according to a report...CMS puts all of the ideas (for revamping the wage index) on the table.'' Although the current system...hospitals would be hit particularly hard by this wage index formula. The ...

HHS OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL ISSUES REVIEW OF HENRY FORD HOSPITAL'S...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 4, 2008 ;     217 words ......the Hospital) overstated its wage data by $27 million and 316,281...participating hospitals by the wage index applicable to the area in...based on hospitals' reported wage data. We recommended that the Hospital...that it had submitted revised wage index information to ...

HHS OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL ISSUES REVIEW OF TOURO INFIRMARY'S...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 17, 2008 ;     200 words ......participating hospitals by the wage index applicable to the statistical...indexes based on hospitals' wage data reported 4 years earlier...cost report, the FY 2009 wage index for the Hospital's statistical...hospitals that use this wage index. We recommended that...

HHS OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL ISSUES REVIEW OF TULANE MEDICAL CENTER'S...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 17, 2008 ;     210 words ......participating hospitals by the wage index applicable to the statistical...indexes based on hospitals' wage data reported 4 years earlier...cost report, the FY 2009 wage index for the Hospital's statistical...hospitals that use this wage index. We recommended that...

HHS OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL ISSUES REVIEW OF OCHSNER FOUNDATION...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  August 26, 2008 ;     200 words ......participating hospitals by the wage index applicable to the statistical...indexes based on hospitals' wage data reported 4 years earlier...cost report, the FY 2009 wage index for the Hospital's statistical...hospitals that use this wage index. We recommended that...

HHS OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL ISSUES REVIEW OF EAST JEFFERSON GENERAL...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 19, 2008 ;     206 words ......participating hospitals by the wage index applicable to the statistical...indexes based on hospitals' wage data reported 4 years earlier...cost report, the FY 2009 wage index for the Hospital's statistical...hospitals that use this wage index. We recommended that...

The proposed hospice wage index would be effective Oct. 1, 2007, through...

Healthcare Financial Management;  June 1, 2007 ;     59 words ...The proposed hospice wage index would be effective Oct. 1, 2007, through Sept. 30, 2008. CMS is not proposing any modifications to the hospice wage index methodology, and is using the most current hospital data available. For this proposed rule, the FY07 hospital wage index was the most ...

Changes Possible to Area Wage Index

Healthcare Executive;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......labor share of IPPS hospitals with an area wage index of greater than 1 percent is about 69 percent...NPRM one or more proposals to revise the wage-index adjustment. The provision requires that...the definition of labor markets for the wage index adjustment. 2. The modification or ...

CMS has issued a proposed rule (Federal Register, May 1, 2007) setting...

Healthcare Financial Management;  June 1, 2007 ;     51 words ......Register, May 1, 2007) setting forth the hospice wage index for FY08. This proposed rule would also revise the methodology for updating the wage index for rural areas without hospital wage data and provide clarification of selected existing...

When every penny counts.(MEDICARE/MEDICAID)

Healthcare Financial Management;  May 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...The Medicare wage index factor, a cost-of-living differentiator...understand the financial magnitude of the wage index factor, consider this: In many labor...or are transitioning to the PPS, the wage index has a significant impact on a hospital...

REVIEW OF HOSPITAL WAGE INDEX AT BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 9, 2006 ;     149 words ......release: "Review of the Hospital Wage Index at Baylor University Medical...requirements for reporting wage data in its fiscal year (FY) 2003...requirements for reporting wage data in its FY 2003 Medicare cost...procedures to ensure that the wage data reported to CMS are ...

MEDICARE GEOGRAPHIC COST ADJUSTORS:NICK SMITH

Congressional Testimony;  July 23, 2002 ;     700+ words ......MSA, and the Kalamazoo- Battle Creek MSA. The wage indices in those other MSAs are consistently and significantly higher than the wage index applicable to Jackson. As you see by this chart the Jackson wage index is between 15 and 20 percent below the Kalamazoo wage index and ...

Interpretation and treatment of wage index data vary.(Letter to the...

Healthcare Financial Management;  September 1, 2007 ;     326 words ......article Is Your Organization's Wage Index Accurate ? could not have...providers to report accurate wage data. The article does not point...continue to propose that wage index reviews be bid out to one...consistent approach to the wage index process. Historically, ...