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S 1135 114th Congress Senate Health Health personnel Hospital care Medicare Rural conditions and development Wages and earnings

Hospital Payment Fairness Act of 2015

Introduced: April 29, 2015 See on congress.gov
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Apr 29, 2015
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Apr 29, 2015
Introduced in Senate
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Hospital Payment Fairness Act of 2015

Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to sunset on October 1, 2015, the application of budget neutrality on a national basis in the calculation of the Medicare hospital wage index floor.

(PPACA requires application of the budget neutrality requirement associated with the effect of the imputed rural floor on the area wage index under the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 through a uniform national, instead of state-by-state, adjustment to the area hospital wage index floor.)

What's happening now April 29, 2015

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 5
All 5 Republican 5
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Wicker, Roger F.
Mississippi · Jul 15, 2015
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Moran, Jerry
Kansas · Jun 22, 2015
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Capito, Shelley Moore
West Virginia · May 5, 2015
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Cotton, Tom
Arkansas · May 5, 2015
 R
McConnell, Mitch
Kentucky · May 5, 2015
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1135: Hospital Payment Fairness Act of 2015. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-1135/
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"S. 1135: Hospital Payment Fairness Act of 2015." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-1135/.
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S. 1135, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-1135/.
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