S 3767
109th Congress
Senate
Health
Governmental investigations
Hospital personnel
Hospital rates
Labor and Employment
Labor statistics
Medicare
Social Welfare
Wages
Payment Accuracy Improvement Act of 2006
Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Aug 1, 2006
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Aug 1, 2006
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8538-8540)
Aug 1, 2006
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Payment Accuracy Improvement Act of 2006 - Declares that, for payments to hospitals under under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act for discharges occurring during FY2006-FY2007, the Secretary of Health and Human Services may not apply an occupational mix adjustment to more than 10% of the Medicare hospital area wage index.
Requires the Secretary, when applying such an occupational mix adjustment, to use only the data that was to be used to make the adjustment to such wage index under the proposed rule published by the Secretary in the Federal Register on April 25, 2006.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
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