S 2828
106th Congress
Senate
Health
Hospital care
Hospital personnel
Hospital rates
Labor and Employment
Medicare
Prospective payment systems (Medical care)
Puerto Rico
Social Welfare
Wages
Geographic Adjustment Fairness Act of 2000
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jun 29, 2000
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Jun 29, 2000
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Geographic Adjustment Fairness Act of 2000 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, with respect to the payment formula of the prospective payment system (PPS) for inpatient hospital services, to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to adjust the proportion of each hospital's costs attributable to wages and wage-related costs (labor cost component) on the basis of the most recent data available on the hospital. (Currently the Secretary is required to make such adjustment based only on an estimate of the labor cost proportion of all hospitals involved (subsection (d) hospitals).)
Exempts hospitals in Puerto Rico from the changes made by this Act.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1