What the public usually sees, however, is marketing language
Note the timing if you notice it
Product quality is the usual explanation
These wage indexes include continued implementation of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) labor market area delineations based on 2020 Decennial Census data, with updates, as discussed in section II.C
As discussed previously, we proposed that if the negotiated percentage or algorithm associated with the allowed amounts was only used for a portion of the 12-month time period prior to posting the file, the hospital would encode the median allowed amount, 10th and 90th percentile allowed amounts, and count of allowed amounts from the EDI 835 ERA transaction data for the portion of time that the percentage or algorithm was used
It means the standard buyer-protection signals (named lab, verifiable COA, batch traceability) are not all in place