3.0.0 3216 2023-01-11T13:15:59Z 2023-01-11T13:15:59Z Senate S S 2010-04-15 111 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2010-04-15T20:56:19Z America's Healthy Future Act of 2009 111 1796 S 2009-10-19 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 184. Related bill CRS 2010-04-15 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2010-04-15 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2387-2388) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2010-04-15 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress G000386 Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] Charles Grassley R IA E. N Health Health care costs and insurance Health personnel Home and outpatient care Hospital care Medicare Rural conditions and development Wages and earnings Health 00 2010-04-15 Introduced in Senate 2010-04-28T21:30:06Z Medicare Rural Health Care Equity Act of 2010 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), to revise the practice expense portion of the geographic adjustment applied in a fee schedule area for physicians' services furnished in 2010 and subsequent years. Reduces the employee wage and rent portions of the index for 2010 from 3/4 to 1/2 of the difference between the relative costs of employee wages and rents in each of the different fee schedule areas and the national average of such employee wages and rents. Reduces the same portions of the index for 2011 from 1/2 to 1/4 of such differences.

Amends PPACA to repeal specified floors for frontier states: (1) on the area wage index for hospitals; (2) on the area wage adjustment factor for hospital outpatient department services; and (3) for the practice expense index for services furnished in such states.

]]> Medicare Rural Health Care Equity Act of 2010 Display Title Medicare Rural Health Care Equity Act of 2010 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure Medicare beneficiary access to physicians, to ensure equitable reimbursement under the Medicare program for all rural States, and to eliminate sweetheart deals for frontier States. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Medicare Rural Health Care Equity Act of 2010 Introduced in Senate 2010-04-15T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-111s3216is/xml/BILLS-111s3216is.xml 2010-04-15 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.