HR 1351
108th Congress
House
Health
Hospital care
Hospital rates
Medically uninsured
Medicare
Puerto Rico
Social Welfare
Supplemental security income program
Welfare recipients
Medicare Puerto Rico Hospital Payment Fairness Act of 2003
Introduced: March 19, 2003
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 3, 2003
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 19, 2003
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Mar 19, 2003
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Medicare Puerto Rico Hospital Payment Fairness Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise: (1) the payment formula to increase payment amounts to Puerto Rico hospitals that are based on the applicable Federal percentage of the discharge-weighted average of the national adjusted DRG (diagnostically-related group) prospective payment rate for hospitals located in urban and rural areas for discharges beginning in FY 2004; and (2) the calculation of Medicare disproportionate share payments for prospective payment system hospitals in Puerto Rico.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Committees of jurisdiction
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