3.0.0 6512 2023-01-11T13:21:13Z 2023-01-11T13:21:13Z House H HR 2010-12-09 111 hswm00 Ways and Means Committee House Standing Referred to 2010-12-09T15:00:43Z 2010-12-09 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hswm00 Ways and Means Committee 2010-12-09 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2010-12-09 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress S001173 Rep. Space, Zachary T. [D-OH-18] Zachary Space D OH T. 18 N A000365 Rep. Austria, Steve [R-OH-7] Steve Austria R OH 7 2010-12-09 True W000801 Rep. Wilson, Charles A. [D-OH-6] Charles Wilson D OH A. 6 2010-12-09 True Health Health facilities and institutions Medicare Wages and earnings Health 00 2010-12-09 Introduced in House 2011-01-05T22:45:19Z Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to extend through FY2013 the reclassification to a specific Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) or New England County Metropolitan Area of any hospital so reclassified for FY2010 by the Medicare Geographic Classification Review Board, if: (1) that hospital would no longer qualify for such reclassification for FY2011; and (2) for FY2011 the average wage index for the geographic area in which such hospital is located is at least 0.1 less than the hospital's average wage index for FY2010.

Declares that such extension shall not result in the recalculation of any diluted wage index for hospitals otherwise utilizing the wage index of the geographic area to which such hospital is reclassified.

]]> To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to prevent the catastrophic loss of wage index reclassification. Display Title To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to prevent the catastrophic loss of wage index reclassification. Official Title as Introduced To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to prevent the catastrophic loss of wage index reclassification. Introduced in House IH Introduced in House 2010-12-09T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-111hr6512ih/xml/BILLS-111hr6512ih.xml 2010-12-09 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. 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.