[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1135 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1135

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for fairness 
            in hospital payments under the Medicare program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 29, 2015

  Mrs. McCaskill (for herself and Mr. Burr) introduced the following 
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for fairness 
            in hospital payments under the Medicare program.

    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 ``Hospital Payment Fairness Act of 
2015''.

SEC. 2. SUNSET OF MEDICARE HOSPITAL PAYMENT PROVISION.

    Section 3141 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (42 
U.S.C. 1395ww note) is amended by inserting ``and before October 1, 
2015,'' after ``October 1, 2010,''.
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