- Title
- Rural Hospital Wages and the Area Wage Index
- First Author
- Dalton, Kathleen
- Date of Pub
- 2002 Fall
- Pages
- 155-176
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 1
- Other Authors
- Howard, Hilda; Slifkin, Rebecca
- Abstract
- We examined data on hospital hourly wages and the prospective payment system(PPS) wage index from 1990 to 1997, to determine if incremental changes to the indexhave improved its precision and equity as a regional cost adjuster. The differentialbetwe
- Abstract Continued
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- NTIS Number
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