3.0.0 2007 2023-01-11T20:35:45Z 2023-01-11T20:35:45Z Senate S S 2007-08-03 110 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2007-08-03T21:39:09Z Medicare Equity and Accessibility Act of 2007 110 2827 HR 2007-06-27 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Identical bill CRS 2007-08-03 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2007-08-03 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress H000206 Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA] THOMAS HARKIN D IA RICHARD N Health Finance and Financial Sector Insurance premiums Medical fees Medical malpractice Medicare Physicians Social Welfare Health 00 2007-08-03 Introduced in Senate 2008-01-31T17:16:25Z Medicare Equity and Accessibility Act of 2007 - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to certain factors and indices in geographic adjustments to the fee schedule for determination of payments for physicians' services.

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to increase the practice expense geographic index to 1.0 for any location for which the practice expense geographic index is less than 1.0.

Repeals the current termination date in order to extend permanently the 1.0 floor for the work expense geographic index.

]]> Medicare Equity and Accessibility Act of 2007 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide a floor of 1.0 for the practice expense and for the work expense geographic practice cost indices (GPCI) under the Medicare Program. Introduced in Senate IS Display Title Medicare Equity and Accessibility Act of 2007 Short Titles as Introduced Medicare Equity and Accessibility Act of 2007 Introduced in Senate 2007-08-03T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s2007is/xml/BILLS-110s2007is.xml 2007-08-03 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.