Fair Medicare Hospital Payments Act of 2017
Official title: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure fairness in Medicare hospital payments by establishing a floor for the area wage index applied with respect to certain hospitals.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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.)
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 397: Fair Medicare Hospital Payments Act of 2017. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-397/
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