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Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS)

The components of a Medicare inpatient hospital payment: national base rates, hospital wage indexes and geography, and MS-DRG relative weights by fiscal year.

What Vlada adds: Preserves the publisher data, normalizes schema eras and identifiers, and connects the product to compatible healthcare entities with measured join coverage.

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Varies by publisher release / annual
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2006-2026
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Publishers: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

What's inside

Medicare IPPS Wage Index (geographic wage adjustment)
The CMS IPPS Wage Index with Cap (FY2026), per hospital CCN — the geographic labor-cost adjustment factor used to localize the inpatient operating payment to a hospital's labor market.
84.7K rows
Medicare IPPS inpatient acuity (MS-DRG relative weights)
The Medicare INPATIENT acuity benchmark — MS-DRG relative weight (weight_after_cap = final applied weight) + geometric/arithmetic LOS.
grain: One row per (ms_drg, effective_period_start/fiscal-year) — CMS IPPS Table 5 relative weight + LOS. CERTIFIED 2026-06-03.
15.0K rows
CCN → CBSA + Wage Index crosswalk
Maps each hospital CCN to its geographic CBSA, county FIPS, and IPPS wage index.
grain: One row per hospital CCN — its CBSA, county FIPS, and IPPS wage index.
3.2K rows
Medicare IPPS Base Rate (operating + capital standardized amounts)
The CMS IPPS base payment rates per fiscal year: operating standardized amount, capital standardized amount, and labor-related share.
66 rows