S 424
112th Congress
Senate
Health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Medicare
Rural conditions and development
Medicare Ambulance Access Preservation Act of 2011
Introduced: March 1, 2011
Introduced by:
Schumer, Charles E.
Democratic
· New York
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 1, 2011
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Mar 1, 2011
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Medicare Ambulance Access Preservation Act of 2011 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to increase to 6% the rate of increase in the fee schedule for ground ambulance services furnished between January 1, 2012, and January 1, 2018, in rural and urban areas.
Extends to January 1, 2018, the increase in the base rate of the fee schedule the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) is required to make for a trip in the case of ground ambulance services furnished on or after July 1, 2004, for which the transportation originates in a qualified low population density rural area.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
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