US Congress House Bill 1324 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 10-0)
Status: Introduced on April 1 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-04-04 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Repeals provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 related to: (1) the disproportionate share hospital (DSH) allotment for Tennessee and Hawaii; (2) an adjustment to the federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) for qualifying disaster-recovery states; (3) the establishment of a floor on the area wage index for a frontier state for purposes of a geographic adjustment to Medicare payments to hospitals for inpatient services; (4) the eligibility for Medicare coverage of certain individuals exposed to environmental health hazards; and (5) the appropriation of funds for debt service on, or direct construction or renovation of, a health care facility that provides research, inpatient, tertiary care, or outpatient clinical service. Amends PPACA to eliminate revisions to the formula for determining the wage index applicable to Section 508 hospitals. (Section 508 of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 allows the temporary reclassification of a hospital with a low Medicare area wage index to a nearby location with a higher index so that the hospital will receive the higher Medicare reimbursement rate.) Makes this Act effective as if it were included in PPACA or, if applicable, the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.

To eliminate sweetheart deals under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Rep. Vern Buchanan [R-FL]	Rep. Kevin Brady [R-TX]	Rep. Jason Chaffetz [R-UT]	Rep. Jeff Duncan [R-SC]
Rep. Bob Gibbs [R-OH]	Rep. Tim Huelskamp [R-KS]	Rep. Walter Jones [R-NC]	Rep. David McKinley [R-WV]
Rep. Dennis Ross [R-FL]	Rep. Pete Sessions [R-TX]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-04-04	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2011-04-01	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2011-04-01	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2011-04-01	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/1324/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/hr1324/BILLS-112hr1324ih.pdf