FY 2025 Wage Index Home Page

Title
FY 2025 Wage Index Home Page
Year
2025
Type
Other
Description
See Below
  1. FY 2025 Hospital Wage Index Development Time Table (PDF)
  2. 2022 Occupational Mix Survey Hospital Reporting Form CMS-10079 for the Wage Index Beginning FY 2025
  3. FY 2025 Preliminary Wage Index PUF (ZIP) - UPDATED (ZIP): Contains the FY 2025 preliminary Worksheet S-3 wage data from FY 2021 cost reports and the Calendar Year 2022 occupational mix survey data. See description tab for complete details. Note: The FY 2025 preliminary Worksheet S-3 wage data file originally posted on May 23, 2023 was missing some providers. On July 12, 2023 we posted an updated FY 2025 preliminary Worksheet S-3 wage data file to include these missing providers. Per the timeline, the Calendar Year 2022 occupational mix survey data was posted on July 12, 2023. On August 14, 2023 we posted an updated Calendar Year 2022 Occupational Mix survey data file that includes survey data for providers that were inadvertently omitted from the file posted on July 12, 2023.
  4. FY 2025 January 31, 2024 Wage Index PUFs (ZIP):  January Worksheet S-3 cost report wage data, calendar year 2022 Occupational Mix survey data, January deleted Worksheet S-3 cost report wage data and January deleted Occupational Mix data.
  5. FY 2025 January 31, 2024 Average Hourly Wage Comparison PUF and Preliminary Inflation Factors (ZIP):  FY 2025 preliminary occupational mix adjusted CBSA Average Hourly Wages (AHWs) and the FY 2024 final occupational mix adjusted CBSA AHWs. Also includes the preliminary FY 2025 Wage Index Inflation Factors.
  6. FY 2025 Proposed Rule Tables 2, 3, 4A and 4B (Wage Index Tables) (ZIP):  
    • Table 2- Proposed Case-Mix Index and Wage Index Table by CMS Certification Number (CCN)
    • Table 3- Proposed Wage Index Table by CBSA; Table 4A - Proposed List of Counties Eligible for the Out-Migration Adjustment under Section 1886(d)(13) of the Act
    • Table 4B - Proposed Counties Redesignated under Section 1886(d)(8)(B) of the Act (LUGAR COUNTIES) 
  7. FY 2025 Proposed Rule Wage Index Public Use Files (ZIP): Open Attached Zip file. Attached is a PDF with a description of each zip file. Main zip file contains 5 zip files:
    • FY 2025 Proposed Rule Wage Index Data PUFs (S3 Part II and Occ Mix Data)
    • FY 2025 Proposed Rule Occupational Mix Adjusted and Unadjusted Average Hourly Wages and Occupational Mix Factor by Provider
    • FY 2025 Proposed Rule Occupational Mix Adjusted and Unadjusted Average Hourly Wages and Pre-Reclass Wage Indexes by CBSA
    • FY 2025 Proposed Rule AHW by Provider Area Listing
  8. FY 2025 April 29, 2024 Wage Index PUFs (ZIP): As of April 29, 2024, this file contains the FY 2025 Worksheet S-3 cost report wage data, Calendar Year 2022 Occupational Mix survey data, deleted Worksheet S-3 cost report wage data, and deleted occupational mix survey data.