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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 See on congress.gov
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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
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
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 July 26, 2000

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7679-7680)

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 1 Republican 1
R
Grassley, Chuck
Iowa · Jul 26, 2000
 D
Wyden, Ron
Oregon · Jul 26, 2000
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2937: Medicare Geographic Fair Payment Act of 2000. 106th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/106-S-2937/
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"S. 2937: Medicare Geographic Fair Payment Act of 2000." 106th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/106-S-2937/.
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S. 2937, 106th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/106-S-2937/.
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