3.0.0 3318 2019-11-15T21:57:52Z 2019-11-15T21:57:52Z Senate S S 2008-07-23 110 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2008-07-23T19:26:27Z 2008-07-23 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7157-7158) IntroReferral 2008-07-23 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7156-7157) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2008-07-23 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress G000386 Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] Charles Grassley R IA E. N Health Medical fees Medicare Physicians Social Welfare Health 00 2008-07-23 Introduced in Senate 2008-10-16T15:17:54Z Medicare Physician Payment Equity Act of 2008 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to recognize equality of physician work in all geographic areas under the Medicare physician fee schedule. Makes the geographic index 1.0 in all fee schedule areas for physician services furnished on or after January 2010.

Requires the Secretary, after calculating the practice expense geographic index, for purposes of payment for services furnished in 2009, to increase the practice expense geographic index to 1.0 for any locality for which such practice expense geographic index is less than 1.0.

Requires the practice expense geographic index, for services furnished on or after January 1, 2010, to reflect half the difference between the relative costs of employee wages and office rents in each of the different fee schedule areas and the national average of such wages and rents.

]]> Medicare Physician Payment Equity Act of 2008 Short Titles as Introduced Medicare Physician Payment Equity Act of 2008 Display Title Medicare Physician Payment Equity Act of 2008 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for recognition of equality of physician work in all geographic areas and revisions to the practice expense geographic adjustment under the Medicare physician fee schedule. Introduced in Senate 2008-07-23T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s3318is/xml/BILLS-110s3318is.xml 2008-07-23 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7157-7158) 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.