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S 2227 105th Congress Senate Health Capitation (Medical care) Congress Congressional reporting requirements Economics and Public Finance Federal budgets Government spending reductions Health maintenance organizations Legislation Managed care Medicare Medicare managed care Social Welfare

Medicare+Choice Payment Equity Act of 1998

Introduced: June 25, 1998 Introduced by: Wyden, Ron Democratic · Oregon See on congress.gov
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Jun 25, 1998
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Jun 25, 1998
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7190)
Jun 25, 1998
Introduced in Senate
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Medicare+Choice Payment Equity Act of 1998 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to eliminate the budget neutrality adjustment factor used in calculating the blended capitation rate for Medicare+Choice organizations.

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to submit to the Congress a legislative proposal that provides for aggregate decreases in Federal expenditures under the Medicare program as are equal to the aggregate increases in such expenditures under such program resulting from such elimination.

What's happening now June 25, 1998

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2227: Medicare+Choice Payment Equity Act of 1998. 105th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/105-S-2227/
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