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Appendix G: RTI Analysis Data Sources
Pages 187-190

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From page 187...
... Researchers may apply to work on-site at BLS to validate computations using unpublished data. HOSPITAL WAGE INDEX DATA SOURCES The CMS wage index data files encompass files for market and provider-level hourly wages, occupation mix adjustments, reclassifications and other adjustment files, outmigration data, and actual wage index data.
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From page 188...
... GEOGRAPHIC PRACTICE COST INDEX DATA SOURCES The 2010 current locality GAFs incorporating congressionally mandated floors for the work and practice expense GPCIs were obtained from Addendum D (pages 40643-5) of the Proposed Rule: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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From page 189...
... 189 APPENDIX G The occupational mix data on physician offices were obtained from the BLS OES: Bureau of Labor Statistics. Occupational employment statistics: May 2009 national industry-specific occupational employment and wage estimates, NAICS 621100 - Offices of Physicians.
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  • wage estimates
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  • locality gafs
  • congressionally mandated
  • incorporating congressionally
  • index values
  • geographic practice

  • employment statistics
  • frontier states
  • final rule
  • medicare physician
  • outmigration data

  • update county
  • multiple cms
  • please note
  • table source
  • computed wage

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  • gpci update
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  • using unpublished
  • rule data


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