S 2937
106th Congress
Senate
Health
Capitation (Medical care)
Health maintenance organizations
Hospital care
Hospital personnel
Hospital rates
Labor and Employment
Managed care
Medicare
Medicare managed care
Prospective payment systems (Medical care)
Puerto Rico
Social Welfare
Wages
Medicare Geographic Fair Payment Act of 2000
Introduced: July 26, 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
Jul 26, 2000
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7679-7680)
Jul 26, 2000
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7678-7679, S7680-7685)
Jul 26, 2000
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Medicare Geographic Fair Payment Act of 2000 - Amends part C (Medicare+Choice) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to increase the annual minimum Medicare+Choice capitation rates for 2001: (1) to $525 for any area in any Metropolitan Statistical Area with a population over 250,000; and (2) to $475 for any area outside such an area.
Amends SSA title XVIII with regard to payment to hospitals for inpatient hospital services to require (except in the case of hospitals in Puerto Rico) that the actual proportion of a hospital's costs attributable to wages and wage-related costs be wage-adjusted based on the most recent available data.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7679-7680)
Committees of jurisdiction
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