S 1499
106th Congress
Senate
Health
Case management
Case mix (Medical care)
Chronically ill
Geriatrics
Health maintenance organizations
Long-term care
Managed care
Medicare
Medicare managed care
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Quality of care
Social Welfare
Medicare's Elderly Receiving Innovative Treatments (MERIT) Act of 1999
Introduced: August 5, 1999
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3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Aug 5, 1999
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Aug 5, 1999
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10391)
Aug 5, 1999
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Medicare's Elderly Receiving Innovative Treatments (MERIT) Act of 1999 - Amends part C (Medicare+Choice) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with regard to the frail elderly by modifying: (1) payment rules (including requiring the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop and implement a new payment system); (2) eligibility, election, and enrollment provisions (adding special rules for frail elderly Medicare+Choice beneficiaries enrolling in specialized programs for the frail elderly that establish a continuous open enrollment period for such individuals); and (3) benefits and beneficiary protections provisions (requiring the Secretary to develop and implement a program to measure the quality of care provided in specialized programs for the frail elderly). Exempts Medicare+Choice beneficiaries in a specialized program for the frail elderly from any risk adjustment system until the Secretary certifies to Congress that a comprehensive risk adjustment methodology taking certain factors into account is being fully implemented.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1