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HR 5531 113th Congress House

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to permit the 2-year phase-in for changes in hospital wage index classification from rural to urban without requiring waiver of a wage index increase,…

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Official title: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to permit the 2-year phase-in for changes in hospital wage index classification from rural to urban without requiring waiver of a wage index increase, and for other purposes.

Introduced: September 18, 2014 See on congress.gov
Health Health facilities and institutionsHospital careMedicareWages and earnings
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Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Sep 18, 2014
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Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to prohibit any subsection (d) hospital located in an area which after September 30, 2014, is reclassified from a rural to an urban area from being required to waive the application of a wage index increase in order to be eligible for such reclassification for the first two fiscal years for which the reclassification from rural to urban is effective.

(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.)

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5531: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to permit the 2-year phase-in for changes in hospital wage index classification from rural to urban without requiring waiver of a wage index increase, and for other purposes.. 113th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-5531/
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"H.R. 5531: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to permit the 2-year phase-in for changes in hospital wage index classification from rural to urban without requiring waiver of a wage index increase, and for other purposes.." 113th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-5531/.
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H.R. 5531, 113th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-5531/.
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[H.R. 5531: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to permit the 2-year phase-in for changes in hospital wage index classification from rural to urban without requiring waiver of a wage index increase, and for other purposes.](https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-5531/)
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