Hospital Payment Fairness Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-2156
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO]
Introduced: 2017-11-16
Policy area: Health
Latest action: action_date: 2017-11-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-11-16
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Hospital Payment Fairness Act of 2017</b></p> <p>This bill amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to&nbsp;terminate the requirement for&nbsp;certain budget-neutrality requirements&nbsp;associated with&nbsp;the Medicare hospital wage-index floor to be&nbsp;applied&nbsp;on a national, rather than state-level, basis.</p>

tv_txt: II 115th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 2156 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES November 16, 2017 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 2017 . 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 April 1, 2018, after October 1, 2010, .