S 421
111th Congress
Senate
Health
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Health personnel
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare
Wages and earnings
Hospice Protection Act
Introduced: February 12, 2009
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Became law
Feb 12, 2009
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Feb 12, 2009
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2230)
Feb 12, 2009
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Hospice Protection Act - Establishes a temporary moratorium on the phase out of the Medicare hospice Budget Neutrality Adjustment Factor (BNAF).
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, between enactment of this Act and December 31, 2009, to recompute and apply the final Medicare hospice wage index for FY2009 as if the BNAF had remained in place with no reduction.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1