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Find The Missing Wage Index Chart For Hospice Here

Published on Wed Apr 20, 2011

Wondering where the rural area wage index chart was in the hospice proposed payment rule? CMS left it out of its proposed payment rule published in the May 9 Federal Register (see Eli's HCW, Vol. XX, No. 17, p. 130). Now CMS has published it in a correction in the May 16 Federal Register. The correction notice also confirms that comments on the proposed rule are due June 27.
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