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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…

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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 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 6 steps
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Passed House
Passed Senate
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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
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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 May 12, 1999

Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E946-947)

 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 9
All 9 Democratic 8 Independent 1
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Sanders, Bernard
Vermont · Nov 17, 1999
 D
Clyburn, James E.
South Carolina · Oct 1, 1999
 D
Neal, Richard E.
Massachusetts · Aug 5, 1999
 D
Schakowsky, Janice D.
Illinois · Jul 21, 1999
 D
Davis, Danny K.
Illinois · Jun 24, 1999
 D
Meeks, Gregory W.
New York · Jun 24, 1999
 D
McGovern, James P.
Massachusetts · Mar 11, 1999
 D
Nadler, Jerrold
New York · Mar 11, 1999
 D
Velázquez, Nydia M.
New York · Mar 11, 1999
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1103: 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.. 106th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HR-1103/
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"H.R. 1103: 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.." 106th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HR-1103/.
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H.R. 1103, 106th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HR-1103/.
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