`medicare_hospital_wage_index`

Pack: medicare-pricing · Connect: https://pipeworx.io/mcp (see Connect below for a single-pack URL)

No MCP client? Call it directly: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/medicare_hospital_wage_index for the schema, then POST the same URL with its arguments for the data.

What is the Medicare IPPS hospital wage index for a metro area (CBSA) and fiscal year? Returns the wage index CMS applies to hospital inpatient payment in a CBSA, with the GAF, the reclassified wage index, the value before frontier / rural-floor / imputed-floor adjustment, and which floors applied. Answers “Medicare hospital wage index for Boston FY2025”, “hospital wage index CBSA 14454 FY2025”, “IPPS wage index for Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim”, “wage index New York-Jersey City-White Plains FY2026”, “rural wage index for Alabama”.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`cbsa`	string	no	CBSA code, e.g. “14454” (Boston) or “31084” (Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale; the retired code 31080 returns its successors 31084 and 11244); a 2-digit state code (e.g. “01”) selects that state’s rural area.
`area`	string	no	Metro area name or part of it (“Boston”, “Los Angeles”, “Boston, MA”). The part after a comma is read as the state.
`state`	string	no	Optional state code or name; alone, lists every CBSA with a row in that state.
`fiscal_year`	number	no	Federal fiscal year, e.g. 2025. Omit for the newest loaded year (stated in the response).

Example call

Arguments

{
  "area": "Boston",
  "fiscal_year": 2025
}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/medicare-pricing/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"medicare_hospital_wage_index","arguments":{"area":"Boston","fiscal_year":2025}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const pipeworx = new Pipeworx();

const result = await pipeworx.call('medicare_hospital_wage_index', {
  "area": "Boston",
  "fiscal_year": 2025
});

More examples

{
  "cbsa": "31084",
  "fiscal_year": 2026
}

Response shape

Field	Type	Description
`found`	boolean
`reason`	string
`hint`	string
`fiscal_year`	number
`year_was_defaulted`	boolean
`area_count`	number
`truncated`	string
`legacy_cbsa_note`	string
`notes`	array
`source`	string
`data_as_of`	string
`loaded_range`	string
`copy_captured_at`	string
`loaded_fiscal_years`	array
`areas`	array

Full JSON Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "found": {
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "reason": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "hint": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "fiscal_year": {
      "type": "number"
    },
    "year_was_defaulted": {
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "area_count": {
      "type": "number"
    },
    "truncated": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "legacy_cbsa_note": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "notes": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      }
    },
    "source": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "data_as_of": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "loaded_range": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "copy_captured_at": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "loaded_fiscal_years": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "number"
      }
    },
    "areas": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "cbsa": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "area_name": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "area_type": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "wage_index": {
            "type": [
              "number",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "wage_index_note": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "state_rows": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "object",
              "properties": {
                "state": {
                  "type": "string"
                },
                "state_code": {
                  "type": "string"
                },
                "wage_index": {
                  "type": [
                    "number",
                    "null"
                  ]
                },
                "gaf": {
                  "type": [
                    "number",
                    "null"
                  ]
                },
                "reclassified_wage_index": {
                  "type": [
                    "number",
                    "null"
                  ]
                },
                "wage_index_before_floors": {
                  "type": [
                    "number",
                    "null"
                  ]
                },
                "floors_applied": {
                  "type": "array",
                  "items": {
                    "type": "string"
                  }
                }
              },
              "additionalProperties": true
            }
          }
        },
        "additionalProperties": true
      }
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": true
}

Connect

Add this to your MCP client config — every tool in the catalog, including this one — or use one-click install buttons:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx": {
      "url": "https://pipeworx.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Connect to just the medicare-pricing pack

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "medicare-pricing": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/medicare-pricing/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

medicare_hospital_wage_index