Hospital Payment Fairness Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-1135
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO]
Introduced: 2015-04-29
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health personnel

Hospital care

Medicare

Rural conditions and development

Wages and earnings
Latest action: action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-04-29
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Hospital Payment Fairness Act of 2015</b></p> <p> 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. </p> <p>(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.)</p>

tv_txt: II 114th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1135 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES April 29, 2015 Mrs. McCaskill (for herself and Mr. Burr ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance A BILL To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for fairness in hospital payments under the Medicare program.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Hospital Payment Fairness Act of 2015 . 2. Sunset of Medicare hospital payment provision Section 3141 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395ww note) is amended by inserting and before October 1, 2015, after October 1, 2010, .