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S 2337 102th Congress Senate Health Budget deficits Collection of accounts Cost control Federal budgets Government spending reductions Medicare

Medicare Funds Recovery Act of 1992

Introduced: March 11, 1992 Introduced by: Grassley, Chuck Republican · Iowa See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred jointly to the Committees on Budget; Governmental Affairs pursuant to the order of August 4, 1977, with instructions that if one Committee reports, the other Committee have thirty days to report or be discharged.
Mar 11, 1992
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Medicare Funds Recovery Act of 1992 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act), as amended by the Budget Enforcement Deficit Control Act of 1990, to authorize adjustments to discretionary spending limits to allow for funding Medicare payment safeguard activities.

Requires the President's budget to include such funding as a separate account. Amends Federal law to require a detailed explanation of Medicare payment safeguard activities expenditures and projections of revenues recovered under rules relating to Medicare secondary payer activities, provider audits, medical and utilization reviews, and waste, fraud, and abuse. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to report annually to specified congressional committees on the actual costs avoided via safeguards, the actual sums recovered which were inappropriately paid, and amounts identified as owed to Medicare but not recovered.

What's happening now March 11, 1992

Read twice and referred jointly to the Committees on Budget; Governmental Affairs pursuant to the order of August 4, 1977, with instructions that if one Committee reports, the other Committee have thirty days to report or be discharged.