HCFA

Medicare Program--Limited Additional Opportunity To Request Certain Hospital Wage Data Revisions for FY 1999 Gao ID: OGC-99-20 December 8, 1998

Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Health Care Financing Administration's (HCFA) new rule on providing hospitals with a limited additional opportunity to request certain hospital wage data revisions for fiscal year (FY) 1999. GAO noted that: (1) the final rule would provide hospitals with a limited additional opportunity to request certain revisions to their wage data used to calculate the FY 1999 hospital wage index; and (2) HCFA complied with applicable requirements in promulgating the rule.



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