Sentence examples for wage indices from inspiring English sources

(ii) At least 10percentt of the county's hospital employees commute to an MSA (or MSAs) with a higher wage index (or wage indices).

(i)Hospital employees in the county commute to work in an MSA (or MSAs) with a wage index (or wage indices) higher than the wage index of the MSA or rural statewide area in which the county is located.

Figure 2 Comparison of French and United States real minimum wage indices.

Hospitals in markets with higher uninsurance rates charged significantly less for caesarean sections, while for-profit hospitals and hospitals with higher wage indices charged more.

Cost data from previous years were adjusted using consumer price indices for medical services and public transportation published by the Statistics Bureau of Japan [ 19], and wage indices published by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare [ 20].

We found that hospitals in markets with middling competition had significantly lower adjusted charges for vaginal deliveries, while hospitals with higher wage indices and casemixes, as well as for-profit hospitals, had higher adjusted charges.

For instance, our results indicate that a hospital's case mix and labour costs (wage index) do not affect charges for these common procedures.

(2 Amount of wage index adjustment.

(1) The wage index is updated annually.

(k Midyear corrections to the wage index.

(3 Process for determining and posting wage index adjustments.