[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 421 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 421

   To impose a temporary moratorium on the phase out of the Medicare 
              hospice budget neutrality adjustment factor.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 12, 2009

  Mr. Specter introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
   To impose a temporary moratorium on the phase out of the Medicare 
              hospice budget neutrality adjustment factor.

    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''.

SEC. 2. TEMPORARY MORATORIUM ON PHASE OUT OF THE MEDICARE HOSPICE 
              BUDGET NEUTRALITY ADJUSTMENT FACTOR.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including provisions 
contained in the final rule published on August 8, 2008, on pages 46464 
to 46522 of volume 73 of the Federal Register (relating to part 418 of 
title 42, code of Federal Regulations), during the period that begins 
on the date of enactment of this section and ends on December 31, 2009, 
the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall recompute and apply 
the final Medicare hospice wage index for fiscal year 2009 as if the 
Budget Neutrality Adjustment Factor had remained in place with no 
reduction.
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