3.0.0 2260 2023-01-13T04:49:05Z 2023-01-13T04:49:05Z Senate S S 2006-02-08 109 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2006-02-08T23:01:55Z To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to eliminate the MA Regional Plan Stabilization Fund and to extend health status adjustment. 109 5064 HR 2006-04-19 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman . Related bill CRS Patients Before Profits Act of 2006 109 4719 HR 2006-02-17 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Identical bill CRS 2006-02-08 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2006-02-08 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C001041 Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] HILLARY CLINTON D NY R N Health Coinsurance Commerce Drugs Economics and Public Finance Emergency Management Emergency medicine Finance and Financial Sector Government trust funds Health insurance Health maintenance organizations Hospital care Hospital rates Insurance premiums Managed care Medicaid Medical economics Medical fees Medical savings accounts Medicare Prescription pricing Social Welfare Subsidies Health 00 2006-02-08 Introduced in Senate 2006-02-21T22:38:28Z Patients Before Profits Act of 2006 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA), as amended by the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, with respect to the health status adjustment to certain monthly payments to Medicare+Choice organizations. Repeals the limitation to 2008, 2009, and 2010 of the requirement that, in applying such adjustment to payment amounts, the Secretary of Health and Human Services ensure that it reflects changes in treatment and coding practices in the fee-for-service sector, and reflects any differences in coding patterns between Medicare Advantage (MA) plans and Medicare providers under parts A and B. Requires the Secretary's analysis of such differences to be completed in time to ensure that the results are incorporated into the risk scores for 2008 and subsequent years (currently, only the risk scores for 2008, 2009, and 2010).

Amends SSA title XVIII to repeal the requirement that the Secretary establish an MA Regional Plan Stabilization Fund.

Amends SSA title XVIII, as amended by the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, to repeal: (1) the state option for alternative premiums and cost sharing; (2) certain special rules for cost sharing for prescription drugs; (3) a state option for permitting hospitals to impose cost sharing for non-emergency care furnished in an emergency department; (2) the state option to provide benchmark benefit packages; and (3) the authority and mandate to establish Health Opportunity Accounts demonstrations.

]]> Patients Before Profits Act of 2006 Display Title Patients Before Profits Act of 2006 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to make improvements to payments to Medicare Advantage plans and to reinstate protections in the Medicaid program for working families, their children, and the disabled against excessive out-of-pocket costs, inadequate benefits, and health care coverage loss. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Patients Before Profits Act of 2006 Introduced in Senate 2006-02-08T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-109s2260is/xml/BILLS-109s2260is.xml 2006-02-08 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.