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Section 1499, Exhibit C-3 Adjusted Hourly Salary Equivalency Amount Monthly Inflation Factors For Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) and CAHs With Swing Beds, provides inflation factors to be applied to the published April 10, 1998, physical therapy, respiratory therapy, occupational and speech-language pathology, guideline amounts at the start of a provider’s cost reporting period and remain in effect for the entire cost reporting period.