[History of Bills, Volume 155 (2009)]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]
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S. 295--A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to
improve the quality and efficiency of the Medicare Program through
measurement of readmission rates and resource use and to develop a
pilot program to provide episodic payments to organized groups of
multispecialty and multilevel providers of services and suppliers
for hospitalization episodes associated with select, high cost
diagnoses; to the Committee on Finance.
By Mr. BINGAMAN, S719 [21JA]
Text, S724 [21JA]
Cosponsors added, S1432 [3FE], S2767 [4MR]