C1-2011-10689. Medicare Program; Hospice Wage Index for Fiscal Year 2012

Correction

In proposed rule document 2011-10689 appearing on pages 26805-26851 the issue of Monday, May 9, 2011 make the following corrections:

On page 26806, in the first column, in the DATES section, in the fifth line, “July 8, 2011” should read “June 27, 2011”.

On page 26851, immediately following the text of Addendum A, insert the following Addendum:

Addendum B—FY 2012 Wage Index for Rural Areas

CBSA code	Nonurban area	Wage index
1	Alabama	0.8000
2	Alaska	1.3073
3	Arizona	0.9417
4	Arkansas	0.8000
5	California	1.2483
6	Colorado	1.0285
7	Connecticut	1.1522
8	Delaware	1.0103
9	District of Columbia 1
10	Florida	0.8707
11	Georgia	0.8000
12	Hawaii	1.1586
13	Idaho	0.8000
14	Illinois	0.8639
15	Indiana	0.8688
16	Iowa	0.8848
17	Kansas	0.8264
18	Kentucky	0.8107
19	Louisiana	0.8000
20	Maine	0.8892
21	Maryland	0.9500
22	Massachusetts 2	1.2186
23	Michigan	0.8858
24	Minnesota	0.9358
25	Mississippi	0.8000
26	Missouri	0.8000
27	Montana	0.8819
28	Nebraska	0.9227
29	Nevada	0.9681
30	New Hampshire	1.0569
31	New Jersey1
32	New Mexico	0.9227
33	New York	0.8475
34	North Carolina	0.8655
35	North Dakota	0.7856
36	Ohio	0.8864
37	Oklahoma	0.8139
38	Oregon	1.0384
39	Pennsylvania	0.8781
40	Puerto Rico3	0.4654
41	Rhode Island 1
42	South Carolina	0.8711
43	South Dakota	0.8838
44	Tennessee	0.8165
45	Texas	0.8083
46	Utah	0.8955
47	Vermont	0.9931
48	Virgin Islands	0.8276
49	Virginia	0.8119
50	Washington	1.0545
51	West Virginia	0.8000
52	Wisconsin	0.9512
53	Wyoming	0.9866
65	Guam	0.9952
1 There are no rural areas in this State or District.
2 There are no hospitals in the rural areas of Massachusetts, so the wage index value used is the average of the contiguous Counties.
3 Wage index values are obtained using the methodology described in this proposed rule.