Stefanik Successfully Advocated to Change the Rural Wage Index Calculation Benefiting Upstate New York Hospitals
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Issues: Health and Health Care
"Upstate New York and North Country communities rely on our hospitals to provide critical services and are often the only provider of these life-saving services for miles. For too long the MWI, which is used to determine how much hospitals get for the labor costs associated with treating Medicare patients, has been severely underrepresented,' stated Congresswoman Stefanik. "I advocated for this rule change to increase in New York's rural wage index drawing much needed resources to our hospitals Upstate."
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