{"id":638,"date":"2025-05-05T11:27:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T18:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/?p=638"},"modified":"2025-05-05T11:27:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T18:27:57","slug":"april-29-public-use-file-puf-for-the-fy-2026-wage-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/?p=638","title":{"rendered":"April 29 Public Use File (PUF) for the FY 2026 Wage Index"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CMS published a Proposed Rule Public Use File (PUF) for the FY 2026 wage Index April 29, 2025. This file reflects the Worksheet S-3, Parts II and III wage data from cost reports for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 (FY Beginning from 10\/1\/2021 to 9\/30\/2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Hospitals will have approximately 1 month (May 30, 2025) to&nbsp;verify their data and submit correction requests to&nbsp;<strong><u>both<\/u><\/strong>&nbsp;CMS and&nbsp;their MAC to correct errors due to CMS or MAC mishandling of the&nbsp;final wage and occupational mix data as posted in the April 29, 2025 PUF.&nbsp; The PUF is available at the below link:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hfssoft.com\/doc\/FY26_april_PUF.20250429.S3_PUF.csv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.hfssoft.com\/doc\/FY26_april_PUF.20250429.S3_PUF.csv<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CMS published a Proposed Rule Public Use File (PUF) for the FY 2026 wage Index April 29, 2025. This file reflects the Worksheet S-3, Parts II and III wage data from cost reports for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 (FY Beginning from 10\/1\/2021 to 9\/30\/2022). Hospitals will have approximately 1 month (May 30, 2025) to&nbsp;verify their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":640,"href":"https:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions\/640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}