HR 1103
106th Congress
House
Health
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Hospital rates
Hospitals
Managed care
Medicare
Medicare managed care
Prospective payment systems (Medical care)
Social Welfare
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to carve out from payments to Medicare+Choice organizations amounts attributable to disproportionate share hospital payments and pay such amounts directly to those disproportionate share hospitals in which their enrollees receive care.
Introduced: March 11, 1999
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Introduced
In committee
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 12, 1999
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E946-947)
Mar 30, 1999
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.
Mar 17, 1999
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 11, 1999
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Mar 11, 1999
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E399)
Mar 11, 1999
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, to: (1) remove from payments to Medicare+Choice organizations those amounts attributable to disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments; and (2) direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make direct payments to a DSH for any individual who is enrolled under a risk-sharing contract with an eligible organization and entitled to benefits under Medicare part A (Hospital Insurance) or who is enrolled with a Medicare+Choice organization under Medicare part C (Medicare+Choice).
What's happening now
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E946-947)
Committees of jurisdiction
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