3.0.0 4017 2023-01-12T17:52:02Z 2023-01-12T17:52:02Z Senate S S 2006-09-29 109 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2006-09-29T21:57:39Z 2006-09-29 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2006-09-29 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10693-10694) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2006-09-29 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S000709 Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA] ARLEN SPECTER R PA N S000059 Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA] RICK SANTORUM R PA 2006-09-29 True Health Administrative remedies Disabled Hospital personnel Housing and Community Development Labor and Employment Law Medicare Metropolitan areas Rehabilitation of the disabled Rural health Social Welfare Urban affairs Wages Health 00 2006-09-29 Introduced in Senate 2006-10-25T17:10:01Z Hospital Payment Improvement and Equity Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a process under which a hospital may appeal its wage index classification under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act and select another area within the state (or, at the Secretary's discretion, within a contiguous state) to which to be reclassified.

Prescribes special rules for: (1) a competitively disadvantaged hospital in a single-hospital Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) surrounded by rural counties; and (2) rehabilitation hospitals and rehabilitation units.

]]> Hospital Payment Improvement and Equity Act of 2006 Display Title Hospital Payment Improvement and Equity Act of 2006 Official Title as Introduced A bill to provide for an appeals process for hospital wage index classification under the Medicare program, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Hospital Payment Improvement and Equity Act of 2006 Introduced in Senate 2006-09-29T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-109s4017is/xml/BILLS-109s4017is.xml 2006-09-29 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.