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HR 4960 111th Congress House Health Appropriations Building construction Connecticut Environmental health Hawaii Health care costs and insurance Health care coverage and access Health facilities and institutions Home and outpatient care Hospital care Intergovernmental relations Louisiana Medical research Medicare Michigan Montana State and local finance Tennessee Wages and earnings

To eliminate sweetheart deals under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Introduced: March 25, 2010 Introduced by: Buchanan, Vern Republican · Florida See on congress.gov
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Apr 9, 2010
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 25, 2010
Referred to House Ways and Means
Mar 25, 2010
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.
Mar 25, 2010
Referred to House Energy and Commerce
Mar 25, 2010
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Repeals provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) related to: (1) the disproportionate share hospital (DSH) allotment for Tennessee and Hawaii; (2) an adjustment to the federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) for qualifying disaster-recovery states; (3) the establishment of a floor on the area wage index for a frontier state for purposes of a geographic adjustment to Medicare payments to hospitals for inpatient services; (4) the eligibility for Medicare coverage of certain individuals exposed to environmental health hazards; and (5) the appropriation of funds for debt service on, or direct construction or renovation of, a health care facility that provides research, inpatient, tertiary care, or outpatient clinical service.

Amends PPACA to eliminate revisions to the formula for determining the wage index applicable to Section 508 hospitals. ("Section 508" refers to Section 508 of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, which allows the temporary reclassification of a hospital with a low Medicare area wage index, for reimbursement purposes, to a nearby location with a higher Medicare area wage index, so that the "Section 508 hospital" will receive the higher Medicare reimbursement rate.)

What's happening now April 9, 2010

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 3
 Cosponsors 4
All 4 Republican 4
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Calvert, Ken
California · Mar 25, 2010
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Carter, John R.
Texas · Mar 25, 2010
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Issa, Darrell
California · Mar 25, 2010
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Wilson, Joe
South Carolina · Mar 25, 2010
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