US Congress Senate Bill 3216 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: Introduced on April 15 2010 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2010-04-15 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Medicare Rural Health Care Equity Act of 2010 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), to revise the practice expense portion of the geographic adjustment applied in a fee schedule area for physicians' services furnished in 2010 and subsequent years. Reduces the employee wage and rent portions of the index for 2010 from 3/4 to 1/2 of the difference between the relative costs of employee wages and rents in each of the different fee schedule areas and the national average of such employee wages and rents. Reduces the same portions of the index for 2011 from 1/2 to 1/4 of such differences. Amends PPACA to repeal specified floors for frontier states: (1) on the area wage index for hospitals; (2) on the area wage adjustment factor for hospital outpatient department services; and (3) for the practice expense index for services furnished in such states.

Medicare Rural Health Care Equity Act of 2010

Sen. Chuck Grassley [R-IA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-04-15		Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
2010-04-15		Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2387-2388)

SB1796 (Related) 2009-10-19 - Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 184.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/senate-bill/3216/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/111/bills/s3216/BILLS-111s3216is.pdf