To eliminate sweetheart deals under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

HB 4960 To eliminate sweetheart deals under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

US Congress 111th Congress

To eliminate sweetheart deals under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
HB-4960


About HB-4960

Repeals provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) related to:

  • (1) the disproportionate share hospital (DSH) allotment for Tennessee and Hawaii;
  • (2) an adjustment to the federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) for qualifying disaster-recovery states;
  • (3) the establishment of a floor on the area wage index for a frontier state for purposes of a geographic adjustment to Medicare payments to hospitals for inpatient services;
  • (4) the eligibility for Medicare coverage of certain individuals exposed to environmental health hazards; and
  • (5) the appropriation of funds for debt service on, or direct construction or renovation of, a health care facility that provides research, inpatient, tertiary care, or outpatient clinical service

Amends PPACA to eliminate revisions to the formula for determining the wage index applicable to Section 508 hospitals. ("Section 508" refers to Section 508 of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, which allows the temporary reclassification of a hospital with a low Medicare area wage index, for reimbursement purposes, to a nearby location with a higher Medicare area wage index, so that the "Section 508 hospital" will receive the higher Medicare reimbursement rate.)

  

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Introduced 11/27/2010

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History

Referred To The Subcommittee On Health.

04/09/2010

Referred To The Committee On Energy And Commerce, And In Addition To The Committee On Ways And Means, For A Period To Be Subsequently Determined By The Speaker, In Each Case For Consideration Of Such Provisions As Fall Within The Jurisdiction Of The Committee Concerned.

03/25/2010

Referred To House Energy And Commerce

03/25/2010

Referred To House Ways And Means

03/25/2010