S 397
115th Congress
Senate
Health
Health personnel
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Medicare
Wages and earnings
Fair Medicare Hospital Payments Act of 2017
Introduced: February 15, 2017
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 15, 2017
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Feb 15, 2017
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Fair Medicare Hospital Payments Act of 2017
This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to establish, with respect to hospitals not located in a frontier state, a floor on the area wage adjustment factor for hospital inpatient and outpatient services covered under Medicare. (Such a floor already applies with respect to hospitals located in frontier states.)
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
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