What’s happening: CHA DataSuite issued a hospital-specific analysis of the Medicare hospital federal fiscal year (FFY) 2026 wage index and occupational mix revised data — and it is imperative that hospitals review these data, as they have until Feb. 18 to submit requests for either error corrections or revisions.
What else to know: The data analyzed is revised and is the second of three wage and occupational mix data public use files (PUFs) that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued to develop the hospital wage index for FFY 2026.
Hospitals may, by Feb. 18, submit requests for either corrections to errors in the January PUFs due to data mishandling by CMS or the Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) or for revisions of desk review adjustments to wage index data as included in the PUFs. Requests and supporting documentation for revision requests must be submitted to the hospital’s MAC.
No new data requests will be addressed, as this is the second release and MACs do not have enough time to process new data.
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