[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3484 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3484

     To provide for a delay in the phase out of the hospice budget 
 neutrality adjustment factor under title XVIII of the Social Security 
                                  Act.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 12, 2008

Mr. Specter (for himself, Mr. Harkin, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. 
  Wyden, and Mr. Smith) introduced the following bill; which was read 
             twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
     To provide for a delay in the phase out of the hospice budget 
 neutrality adjustment factor under title XVIII of the Social Security 
                                  Act.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Hospice Protection Act of 2008''.

SEC. 2. DELAY IN PHASE OUT OF THE HOSPICE BUDGET NEUTRALITY ADJUSTMENT 
              FACTOR.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including the 
provisions contained in the final rule published on August 8, 2008, on 
pages 46464 through 46522 of volume 73, Federal Register (relating to 
part 418 of title 42, Code of Federal Regulations), the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services shall not take any action to phase out or 
eliminate the budget neutrality adjustment factor in the Medicare 
hospice wage index prior to October 1, 2009.
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