S 2501
113th Congress
Senate
Health
Hospital care
Medicare
Hospital Readmissions Program Accuracy and Accountability Act of 2014
Introduced: June 19, 2014
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Became law
Jun 19, 2014
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Jun 19, 2014
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Hospital Readmissions Program Accuracy and Accountability Act of 2014 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, with respect to the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), in determining a hospital's excess readmission ratio for purposes of making payments for discharges starting in FY2016, to risk adjust readmissions to account for patient socioeconomic status.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
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