3.0.0 3118 2017-12-15T00:27:56Z 2022-02-08T17:27:15Z Senate S S 2008-06-11 110 2008-06-12 Senate Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 776. Calendars 2008-06-11 Senate Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. Calendars 2008-06-11 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5526-5529) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2008-06-11 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress G000386 Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] Charles Grassley R IA E. N M000355 Sen. McConnell, Mitch [R-KY] Mitch McConnell R KY 2008-06-11 True K000352 Sen. Kyl, Jon [R-AZ] Jon Kyl R AZ Llewellyn 2008-06-11 True H000338 Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] ORRIN HATCH R UT GRANT 2008-06-11 True S001078 Sen. Sununu, John E. [R-NH] John Sununu R NH E. 2008-06-11 True B001066 Sen. Bunning, Jim [R-KY] JIM BUNNING R KY 2008-06-11 True C000880 Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID] Mike Crapo R ID 2008-06-11 True B001135 Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC] Richard Burr R NC Mauze 2008-06-11 True E000194 Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV] JOHN ENSIGN R NV 2008-06-11 True E000285 Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY] MICHAEL ENZI R WY B. 2008-06-11 True C001057 Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN] Norm Coleman R MN 2008-06-12 False M001153 Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK] Lisa Murkowski R AK 2008-06-12 False S000888 Sen. Stevens, Ted [R-AK] THEODORE STEVENS R AK F. 2008-06-12 False B001261 Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY] John Barrasso R WY 2008-06-17 False C000567 Sen. Cochran, Thad [R-MS] Thad Cochran R MS 2008-07-08 False V000127 Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA] David Vitter R LA 2008-07-10 False Health Access to health care Aid to dependent children Ambulances Anesthetics Appropriations Cardiovascular diseases Cash welfare block grants Chronically ill Commerce Communication in medicine Disabled Drugs Economics and Public Finance Electronic data interchange Emergency Management Emergency medicine Families Federal aid to education Federal aid to health facilities Government Operations and Politics Hawaii Health insurance Higher education Home care services Hospital rates Hospitals Housing and Community Development Illegal aliens Imaging systems in medicine Immigrant health Immigration Kidney diseases Lung diseases Marketing Medicaid Medical education Medical fees Medically uninsured Medicare Old age assistance Physicians Prescription pricing Quality of care Rural health Science, Technology, Communications Sexual abstinence Social Welfare Tennessee Health 00 2008-06-11 Introduced in Senate 2008-07-01T19:54:24Z Preserving Access to Medicare Act of 2008 - Craig Thomas Rural Hospital and Provider Equity Act of 2008 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) revise the payment adjustment for low-volume hospitals; (2) extend increased Medicare payments for ground ambulance services; (3) extend the authorization for Medicare rural hospital flexibility program grants; (4) provide for rebasing for sole community hospitals; and (5) extend the rural home health add-on policy through 2009.

Revises the formula for payments for physician services to provide an update to the single conversion factor of: (1) 0.5% for the remainder of 2008; and (2) 1.1% for 2009.

Extends the Physician Assistance and Quality Initiative (PAQI) Fund.

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a Physician Feedback Program.

Revises requirements or provides for: (1) incentive payments for electronic prescribing and primary care services in physician scarcity areas; (2) the Medicare anesthesia teaching program; (3) advanced diagnostic imaging services; (4) Medicare coverage of items and services under cardiac rehabilitation and pulmonary rehabilitation programs; (5) phase-out of the indirect costs of medical education (IME) from capitation rates; (6) quality improvement programs; and (7) certain prohibitions with respect to marketing of Medicare Advantage and prescription drug plans.

Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary to establish specified pilot projects regarding chronic kidney disease.

Amends the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006 to extend the transitional medical assistance (TMA) and abstinence education programs.

Amends SSA title XIX to extend: (1) the qualifying individual program; and (2) the Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) allotment for Tennessee and Hawaii.

Provides for: (1) asset verification under Medicaid; and (2) reduction in payments for Medicaid administrative costs to prevent certain payment duplications.

Amends the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 to extend authority for supplemental grants under SSA title IV part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF).

Amends the Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 to provide for additional funding for state health insurance assistance programs, area agencies on aging, and aging and disability resource centers.

Amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to make appropriations for federal reimbursement of eligible providers for emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens.

]]> Preserving Access to Medicare Act of 2008 Short Titles as Introduced Preserving Access to Medicare Act of 2008 Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill Craig Thomas Rural Hospital and Provider Equity Act of 2008 Display Title Preserving Access to Medicare Act of 2008 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to preserve beneficiary access to care by preventing a reduction in the Medicare physician fee schedule, to improve the quality of care by advancing value based purchasing, electronic health records, and electronic prescribing, and to maintain and improve access to care in rural areas, and for other purposes. Placed on Calendar Senate 2008-06-12T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s3118pcs/xml/BILLS-110s3118pcs.xml 2008-06-12 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 776. 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.