S 2547
107th Congress
Senate
Health
Ambulatory care
Clinics
Emergency Management
Emergency medical services
Hospital care
Hospital rates
Housing and Community Development
Medicare
Prospective payment systems (Medical care)
Rural hospitals
Social Welfare
Medicare Hospital Outpatient Department Fair Payment Act of 2002
Introduced: May 22, 2002
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3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 22, 2002
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4718-4719)
May 22, 2002
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4716-4717)
May 22, 2002
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
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) 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.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4718-4719)
Committees of jurisdiction
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