In addition to the changes required by the Affordable Care Act, we note that the proposed FY 2026 IPPS wage indexes continue to reflect a number of adjustments implemented in past years, including, but not limited to, reclassification of hospitals to different geographic areas, the rural floor provisions, the imputed floor wage index adjustment in all-urban States, an adjustment for occupational mix, an adjustment to the wage index based on commuting patterns of employees (the out-migration adjustment), and the permanent 5 percent cap on any decrease to a hospital's wage index from its wage index in a prior FY
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