US Congress Senate Bill 1135 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 11-1)
Status: Introduced on April 29 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-04-29 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Hospital Payment Fairness Act of 2015 Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to sunset on October 1, 2015, the application of budget neutrality on a national basis in the calculation of the Medicare hospital wage index floor. (PPACA requires application of the budget neutrality requirement associated with the effect of the imputed rural floor on the area wage index under the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 through a uniform national, instead of state-by-state, adjustment to the area hospital wage index floor.)

Hospital Payment Fairness Act of 2015

Sen. Claire McCaskill [D-MO]	Sen. Richard Burr [R-NC]	Sen. Tom Cotton [R-AR]	Sen. Shelley Capito [R-WV]
Sen. Mitch McConnell [R-KY]	Sen. Rob Portman [R-OH]	Sen. Pat Roberts [R-KS]	Sen. Jeff Sessions [R-AL]
Sen. Roy Blunt [R-MO]	Sen. Jerry Moran [R-KS]	Sen. Roger Wicker [R-MS]	Sen. Thad Cochran [R-MS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-04-29	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/1135/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s1135/BILLS-114s1135is.pdf