US Congress House Bill 1479 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 47-0)
Status: Introduced on March 19 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-03-27 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Repeal of the Obamacare Bay State Boondoogle Act Revises requirements for the non-rural area wage index floor in the formula for the national adjusted diagnosis-related group (DRG) prospective payment rate used in calculating payments under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act for each inpatient hospital discharge in a fiscal year involving inpatient hospital services of a subsection (d) hospital. (Generally, a subsection [d] hospital is an acute care hospital, particularly one that receives payments under Medicare's inpatient prospective payment system [IPPS] when providing covered inpatient services to eligible beneficiaries.) Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in the case of discharges occurring on or after April 1, 2015, to apply budget neutrality, under the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and related regulations, on a state-specific rather than national basis in the calculation of the Medicare hospital wage index floor, including a minimum wage index, for each non-rural area, using a specified methodology as if it had been fully implemented for FY2011 using a 100% state-specific adjustment to the area wage index. Declares that nothing in this Act shall be construed as preventing the Secretary, for discharges occurring on or after April 1, 2015, from modifying related regulations in carrying out budget neutrality requirements. Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to end the application of budget neutrality on a national basis in the calculation of the Medicare hospital wage index floor as of April 1, 2015.

Repeal of the Obamacare Bay State Boondoogle Act

Rep. Kevin Brady [R-TX]	Rep. Mike Kelly [R-PA]	Rep. David McKinley [R-WV]	Rep. Sam Graves [R-MO]
Rep. David Roe [R-TN]	Rep. Walter Jones [R-NC]	Rep. Steve Womack [R-AR]	Rep. Bradley Byrne [R-AL]
Rep. Morgan Griffith [R-VA]	Rep. Ann Wagner [R-MO]	Rep. Bob Goodlatte [R-VA]	Rep. Michael Burgess [R-TX]
Rep. Brett Guthrie [R-KY]	Rep. David Joyce [R-OH]	Rep. Ed Whitfield [R-KY]	Rep. Joe Wilson [R-SC]
Rep. Brian Babin [R-TX]	Rep. Garland Barr [R-KY]	Rep. Rick Allen [R-GA]	Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer [R-MO]
Rep. Tim Huelskamp [R-KS]	Rep. David Young [R-IA]	Rep. John Duncan [R-TN]	Rep. Bruce Westerman [R-AR]
Rep. Mike Pompeo [R-KS]	Rep. Sam Johnson [R-TX]	Rep. Billy Long [R-MO]	Rep. Martha Roby [R-AL]
Rep. Bill Johnson [R-OH]	Rep. Reid Ribble [R-WI]	Rep. Jeff Fortenberry [R-NE]	Rep. Glenn Grothman [R-WI]
Rep. Mike D. Rogers [R-AL]	Rep. Mo Brooks [R-AL]	Rep. Lynn Jenkins [R-KS]	Rep. Kevin Yoder [R-KS]
Rep. Tom Price [R-GA]	Rep. Adrian Smith [R-NE]	Rep. Harold Rogers [R-KY]	Rep. Diane Black [R-TN]
Rep. Trent Kelly [R-MS]	Rep. Jason Smith [R-MO]	Rep. Jeb Hensarling [R-TX]	Rep. Charles Boustany [R-LA]
Rep. Dan Benishek [R-MI]	Rep. Vicky Hartzler [R-MO]	Rep. Mike Bishop [R-MI]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-03-27	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2015-03-19	House	Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
2015-03-19	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1479/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr1479/BILLS-114hr1479ih.pdf