R504PR1

Provides for calendar year (CY) inflation factors to update previous years’ reasonable compensation ranges. The factor is from the cost category Professional Fees: Labor Related in the CMS Prospective Payment System Hospital Input Price Index. The data in the Input Price Index is taken from actual data for the most recent year from the Employment Cost Index (ECI) for Professional and Related Services published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In this transmittal, the factor for CY 2025 has been added and the factor for CY 2015 has been deleted. The factors are applied on a calendar year basis.