Source: 80 FR 47142. Medicare program;
FY 2016 Hospice Wage Index and Payment Rate Update and Hospice Quality
Reporting Requirements; Final Rule.
The FY 2016 wage indexes for urban and rural
areas have been combined into a single transitional file available
on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) web site
at
http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicare-Fee-for-Service-Payment/Hospice/index.html.
The wage index file provides a crosswalk between the FY 2016 wage
index using the current OMB delineations in effect on FY 2015 and
the FY 2016 wage index using the revised OMB delineations, as well
as the transition wage index values that will be in effect in FY
2016. Refer to
Addendum B (FY 2016) for additional details
regarding the transition process.
This is a temporary consolidation of previously
separate addendums (separate urban and rural wage index addendums)
to accommodate the transition Wage Index that is to be used for
FY 2016.