A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to consult with State medical societies in resolving the geographic adjustment factors used to determine the amount of payment for physicians' services under part B of the Medicare program, to require the Secretary to base geographic-cost-of-practice indices under the program upon the most recent available data, and for other purposes
Contributors: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
Publisher: [United States Government Printing Office]
Published: 1993
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.?]
Language: eng
Subjects: Medical fees; Regional disparities; Law and legislation; Physicians; Salaries; Medicine; Practice; Cost of operation; Medicare; United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Secretary; United States
Other titles: Medicare Geographic Data Accuracy Act of 1993.; 103d Congress, 1st Session, S. 242 in the Senate of the United States.; To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to consult with State medical societies in resolving the geographic adjustment factors used to determine the amount of payment for physicians' services under part B of the Medicare program, to require the Secretary to base geographic-cost-of-practice indices under the program upon the most recent available data, and for other purposes.
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Introduced January 27 (legislative day, January 5), 1993; read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.