[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
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[S. 3582 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3582

  To require continued application of budget neutrality on a national 
    basis in calculation of the Medicare urban hospital wage floor.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

           September 25 (legislative day, September 17), 2008

Mr. Lautenberg (for himself, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Dodd, and Mr. Lieberman) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                          Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require continued application of budget neutrality on a national 
    basis in calculation of the Medicare urban hospital wage floor.

    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 ``Safeguarding Our Hospitals' Futures 
Act of 2008''.

SEC. 2. CONTINUED APPLICATION OF BUDGET NEUTRALITY ON A NATIONAL BASIS 
              IN CALCULATION OF THE MEDICARE URBAN HOSPITAL WAGE FLOOR.

    In the case of discharges occurring on or after October 1, 2008, 
the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall continue to administer 
section 4410(b) of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1395ww 
note) and section 412.64(e) of title 42, Code of Federal Regulations, 
in the same manner as the Secretary administered such sections for 
discharges occurring during fiscal year 2008 (through a uniform, 
national adjustment to the area wage index).
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