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HR 5234 107th Congress House

Medicare Hospital Outpatient Department Fair Payment Act of 2002

Official title: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for fair payments under the Medicare hospital outpatient department prospective payment system.

Introduced: July 25, 2002 Introduced by: Sessions, Pete Republican · Texas See on congress.gov
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Jul 29, 2002
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jul 25, 2002
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Jul 25, 2002
Introduced in House
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 Latest action July 29, 2002

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Medicare Hospital Outpatient Department Fair Payment Act of 2002 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise the Medicare hospital outpatient department (OPD) prospective payment system with regard to: (1) fee schedule amounts for clinic and emergency visits; (2) transitional pass-through for additional costs of innovative medical devices, drugs, and biologicals; (3) OPD fee schedule increase factor; (4) budget neutrality adjustment under requirements for periodic review and adjustments components of the prospective payment system; (4) outlier payments; (5) transitional adjustment to limit decline in payment; and (6) the requirement to increase relative payment weights in certain circumstances.

Amends the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000 to provide for permanent extension of provider-based status for any facility or organization that is treated as provider-based in relation to a hospital or critical access hospital under Medicare as of October 1, 2000.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • S 2547 Identical bill Medicare Hospital Outpatient Department Fair Payment Act of 2002
 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 3
 Cosponsors 5
All 5 Democratic 2
LIPINSKI, WILLIAM
· Sep 26, 2002
 D
Pallone, Frank
New Jersey · Sep 19, 2002
 D
Schakowsky, Janice D.
Illinois · Sep 19, 2002
FROST, MARTIN
· Sep 11, 2002
Burr, Richard
· Jul 25, 2002
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5234: Medicare Hospital Outpatient Department Fair Payment Act of 2002. 107th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HR-5234/
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"H.R. 5234: Medicare Hospital Outpatient Department Fair Payment Act of 2002." 107th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HR-5234/.
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