"TABLE 4D.—STATES DESIGNATED AS FRONTIER, WITH ACUTE CARE HOSPITALS RECEIVING AT A MINIMUM THE FRONTIER STATE FLOOR WAGE INDEX1; URBAN AREAS WITH ACUTE CARE HOSPITALS RECEIVING THE FINAL STATEWIDE RURAL FLOOR WAGE INDEX  FY 2012-Correction"				
[*Only hospitals that are geographically located in the specified State receive the State’s frontier or rural or Imputed floor wage index.] (Wage Index Includes Rural/Imputed Floor Budget Neutrality Adjustment Unless a Frontier State Floor Wage Index)				
"Note: Due to corrections, as discussed in the FY 2012 correction notice (CMS-1518-CN, 76 FR XXXXX), hospitals in the following areas will not receive a floor wage index for FY 2012; therefore, the areas are deleted from Table 4D."				
CBSA Code	State or Urban Area	State*	Pre-Floor Wage Index	Final Frontier or Rural or Imputed Floor Wage Index
20020	"Dothan, AL"	AL	0.7225	0.7277
26380	"Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA"	LA	0.799	0.7923
29340	"Lake Charles, LA"	LA	0.799	0.7923
				
1 Hospitals in frontier States cannot be assigned a wage index of less than 1.0000 under section 10324 of the Affordable Care Act (Pub. L. 111-148).				
