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Medicare Fairness in Reimbursement Act of 2000
Introduced: May 23, 2000
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 23, 2000
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4316)
May 23, 2000
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4315-4316)
May 23, 2000
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Medicare Fairness in Reimbursement Act of 2000 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to instruct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a system for making adjustments to payments for items and services provided under the original Medicare fee-for-service program, with specified formulae for States whose average per beneficiary amount is: (1) greater than 105 percent of the national average; or (2) less than 95 percent of the national average.
Requires the Secretary to: (1) establish procedures for improving methods to collect wage and hour data on hospital employees by occupational category; and (2) revise the methods used to adjust payments to hospitals for different area wage levels to ensure that such data are taken into account.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4316)
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1