HR 2753
111th Congress
House
Health
Health facilities and institutions
Hospital care
Medicare
Wages and earnings
To delay the implementation of new Medicare hospital geographic wage reclassification criteria until the Secretary of Health and Human Services issues a proposal to revise the hospital wage index classification system that addresses certain considerations.
Introduced: June 8, 2009
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Jun 8, 2009
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Jun 8, 2009
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from applying, during a specified period, certain revised Medicare average hourly wage comparison reclassification criteria to a "subsection (d) hospital" seeking reclassification of its wage index during such period.
(Generally a subsection (d) hospital is an acute care hospital, particularly one that receives payments under Medicare's inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) when providing covered inpatient services to eligible beneficiaries.)
What's happening now
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
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