US Congress House Bill 4669 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-1)
Status: Introduced on February 23 2010 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-03-08 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to make subsection (d) hospitals located in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, or the Northern Mariana Islands eligible for electronic health record (EHR) incentive payments in the same manner as subsection (d) hospitals located in the 50 states. (Generally, a subsection [d] hospital is an acute care hospital, particularly one that receives payments under Medicare's inpatient prospective payment system when providing covered inpatient services to eligible beneficiaries.)

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide that hospitals located in territories are eligible for electronic health record incentive payments under Medicare in the same manner as hospitals located in one of the 50 States are eligible for such incentive payments.

Rep. Madeleine Bordallo [D-GU]	Rep. Donna Christensen [D-VI]	Rep. Eni Faleomavaega [D-AS]	Rep. Alan Grayson [D-FL]
Rep. Luis Gutierrez [D-IL]	Rep. Pedro Pierluisi [N-PR]	Rep. Gregorio Sablan [D-MP]	Rep. Gregorio Sablan [D-MP]
Rep. Jose Serrano [D-NY]	Rep. Nydia Velazquez [D-NY]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-03-08		Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2010-02-23		Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/4669/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/111/bills/hr4669/BILLS-111hr4669ih.pdf