HR 1609 · 107th Congress 2001–2003, ended

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for national standardized payment amounts for inpatient hospital services furnished under the Medicare Program.

Introduced Apr 26, 2001 Originated House Sponsor Phil English R-PA

Latest action · May 8, 2001 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedApr 26, 2001
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) mandate a single national average standardized payment amount for inpatient hospital services furnished, regardless of whether in an urban or non-urban area, under the Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) for discharges occurring in FY 2002 and thereafter; and (2) establish a minimum factor of .925 as a floor for area wage adjustment factors used under the PPS for inpatient and outpatient hospital services.

Cosponsors 196

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 26, 2001 to Sep 24, 2002; 5 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
R-AL	Bob Riley	Original	Apr 26, 2001
D-AL	Earl F. Hilliard	Original	Apr 26, 2001
D-TN	John S. Tanner	Original	Apr 26, 2001
R-MN	Mark R. Kennedy	Original	Apr 26, 2001
D-AL	Robert E. (Bud) Cramer Jr.	Original	Apr 26, 2001
R-AR	Asa Hutchinson		May 1, 2001
R-PA	Don Sherwood		May 1, 2001
R-PA	John E. Peterson		May 1, 2001
D-IA	Leonard L. Boswell		May 1, 2001
R-SC	Lindsey Graham		May 1, 2001
R-AL	Robert B. Aderholt		May 1, 2001
R-AL	Sonny Callahan		May 1, 2001
R-TN	Van Hilleary		May 1, 2001
R-NY	John M. McHugh		May 2, 2001
D-AR	Mike Ross		May 2, 2001
D-WV	Nick J. Rahall II		May 2, 2001
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		May 2, 2001
R-OK	Wes Watkins		May 2, 2001
R-NY	Amo Houghton		May 9, 2001
R-IA	Greg Ganske		May 9, 2001
R-NY	James T. Walsh		May 9, 2001
D-ME	John Elias Baldacci		May 9, 2001
D-NY	John J. LaFalce		May 9, 2001
R-TX	Larry Combest		May 9, 2001
R-AL	Spencer Bachus		May 9, 2001
R-AL	Terry Everett		May 9, 2001
D-MN	James L. Oberstar		May 15, 2001
D-TX	Max Sandlin		May 15, 2001
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		May 15, 2001
D-NM	Tom Udall		May 15, 2001
R-SC	Floyd Spence		May 16, 2001
R-IA	James A. Leach		May 21, 2001
D-SC	James E. Clyburn		May 21, 2001
D-AR	Marion Berry		May 21, 2001
R-TX	Pete Sessions		May 21, 2001
D-TX	Charles W. Stenholm		May 22, 2001
D-PA	Tim Holden		May 22, 2001
D-PA	Robert A. Brady		May 23, 2001
D-MN	Collin C. Peterson		May 24, 2001
D-MS	Bennie G. Thompson		Jun 5, 2001
R-OK	J. C. Watts Jr.		Jun 5, 2001
D-MI	James A. Barcia		Jun 5, 2001
D-TX	Jim Turner		Jun 5, 2001
R-OH	Paul E. Gillmor		Jun 5, 2001
R-TX	Ralph M. Hall		Jun 5, 2001
R-MS	Roger F. Wicker		Jun 5, 2001
R-KY	Ron Lewis		Jun 5, 2001
R-TX	Ron Paul		Jun 5, 2001
D-PA	Paul E. Kanjorski		Jun 7, 2001
R-VA	Virgil H. Goode Jr.		Jun 8, 2001
D-WV	Alan B. Mollohan		Jun 12, 2001
D-TN	Bart Gordon		Jun 12, 2001
R-GA	Saxby Chambliss		Jun 12, 2001
R-IA	Tom Latham		Jun 12, 2001
D-OK	Brad Carson		Jun 19, 2001
D-TN	Harold E. Ford Jr.		Jun 19, 2001
R-NY	John E. Sweeney		Jun 19, 2001
D-NY	Maurice D. Hinchey		Jun 19, 2001
R-PA	Melissa A. Hart		Jun 19, 2001
R-NY	Thomas M. Reynolds		Jun 19, 2001
D-TN	Bob Clement		Jun 21, 2001
D-VI	Donna M. Christensen		Jun 21, 2001
R-IL	Jerry Weller		Jun 26, 2001
R-GA	Johnny Isakson		Jun 26, 2001
R-TN	Zach Wamp		Jun 27, 2001
D-PA	John P. Murtha		Jun 28, 2001
D-IL	Jerry F. Costello		Jul 10, 2001
R-IL	John Shimkus		Jul 10, 2001
D-IL	Lane Evans		Jul 10, 2001
D-PA	Robert A. Borski		Jul 10, 2001
D-TX	Ruben Hinojosa		Jul 10, 2001
R-NC	Walter B. Jones		Jul 10, 2001
D-MI	Bart Stupak		Jul 17, 2001
R-CO	Bob Schaffer		Jul 17, 2001
D-PA	Chaka Fattah		Jul 17, 2001
R-TX	Henry Bonilla		Jul 17, 2001
R-IL	Ray LaHood		Jul 17, 2001
R-FL	Adam H. Putnam		Jul 19, 2001
R-FL	Dave Weldon		Jul 19, 2001
R-KY	Ed Whitfield		Jul 19, 2001
R-KY	Harold Rogers		Jul 19, 2001
R-FL	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen		Jul 19, 2001
D-VA	Rick Boucher		Jul 19, 2001
R-MS	Charles W. "Chip" Pickering		Jul 23, 2001
R-VA	Edward L. Schrock		Jul 23, 2001
R-TX	Lamar Smith		Jul 23, 2001
D-NY	Michael R. McNulty		Jul 23, 2001
D-MS	Ronnie Shows		Jul 23, 2001
R-NY	Sherwood Boehlert		Jul 23, 2001
R-FL	Cliff Stearns		Jul 24, 2001
R-AZ	Jim Kolbe		Jul 24, 2001
R-IL	Timothy V. Johnson		Jul 24, 2001
D-KY	Ken Lucas		Jul 26, 2001
D-FL	Allen Boyd		Jul 27, 2001
D-IL	David D. Phelps		Jul 31, 2001
D-NC	Eva M. Clayton		Jul 31, 2001
D-PA	Frank Mascara		Jul 31, 2001
R-VA	Jo Ann Davis		Jul 31, 2001
R-MO	Jo Ann Emerson		Jul 31, 2001
D-PA	Joseph M. Hoeffel		Jul 31, 2001
D-CA	Sam Farr		Jul 31, 2001
R-PA	Joseph R. Pitts		Aug 1, 2001
R-FL	Lincoln Diaz-Balart		Aug 1, 2001
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter		Aug 1, 2001
R-NY	Sue W. Kelly		Aug 1, 2001
D-WA	Norman D. Dicks		Aug 2, 2001
R-PA	Bill Shuster		Sep 5, 2001
D-CA	Bob Filner		Sep 5, 2001
R-AZ	Bob Stump		Sep 5, 2001
R-WA	Doc Hastings		Sep 5, 2001
R-KS	Jerry Moran		Sep 5, 2001
R-TN	John J. Duncan, Jr.		Sep 5, 2001
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		Sep 5, 2001
D-NC	Mike McIntyre		Sep 5, 2001
D-HI	Neil Abercrombie		Sep 5, 2001
R-WV	Shelley Moore Capito		Sep 5, 2001
R-PA	Todd Russell Platts		Sep 5, 2001
D-TX	Charles A. Gonzalez		Sep 13, 2001
D-TX	Chet Edwards		Sep 13, 2001
R-GA	Nathan Deal		Sep 13, 2001
R-NE	Tom Osborne		Sep 13, 2001
R-TN	William L. Jenkins		Sep 13, 2001
R-GA	Jack Kingston		Sep 21, 2001
R-PA	Patrick J. Toomey		Sep 21, 2001
R-PA	Curt Weldon		Sep 25, 2001
R-PA	George W. Gekas		Sep 25, 2001
R-NE	Doug Bereuter		Oct 2, 2001
D-ND	Earl Pomeroy		Oct 2, 2001
D-PA	William J. Coyne		Oct 3, 2001
R-IA	Jim Nussle		Oct 5, 2001
D-CA	Lynn C. Woolsey		Oct 5, 2001
R-VA	J. Randy Forbes		Oct 10, 2001
R-PA	James C. Greenwood		Oct 11, 2001
R-VA	Bob Goodlatte		Oct 16, 2001
D-AR	Vic Snyder		Oct 16, 2001
R-KY	Ernie Fletcher		Nov 6, 2001
R-IN	Mark E. Souder		Nov 29, 2001
R-LA	John Cooksey		Dec 11, 2001
R-MN	Gil Gutknecht		Dec 19, 2001
R-NY	Jack Quinn		Dec 19, 2001
D-IL	Rod R. Blagojevich		Jan 23, 2002
D-FL	Jim Davis		Jan 29, 2002
R-SC	Joe Wilson		Jan 29, 2002
R-MO	Sam Graves		Feb 5, 2002
R-MI	Dave Camp		Feb 12, 2002
D-OH	Tony P. Hall		Feb 12, 2002
R-IL	Donald A. Manzullo		Feb 13, 2002
R-TX	Mac Thornberry		Feb 27, 2002
R-MO	Roy Blunt		Feb 27, 2002
R-TN	Ed Bryant		Mar 4, 2002
R-MI	Nick Smith		Mar 5, 2002
R-LA	Richard H. Baker		Mar 5, 2002
D-OH	Dennis J. Kucinich		Mar 7, 2002
D-SC	John M. Spratt, Jr.		Mar 7, 2002
D-CO	Mark Udall		Mar 7, 2002
R-WA	George R. Nethercutt Jr.		Mar 12, 2002
R-SC	Henry E. Brown, Jr.		Mar 12, 2002
R-CT	Rob Simmons		Mar 12, 2002
D-ME	Thomas H. Allen		Mar 12, 2002
D-NC	Bob Etheridge		Mar 19, 2002
D-LA	Christopher John		Mar 19, 2002
D-UT	Jim Matheson		Mar 19, 2002
R-FL	Mark Foley		Mar 19, 2002
D-MA	Richard E. Neal		Mar 19, 2002
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch		Mar 19, 2002
R-SC	Jim DeMint		Apr 10, 2002
R-SD	John Thune		Apr 10, 2002
R-OH	Michael G. Oxley		Apr 10, 2002
R-NC	Robin Hayes		Apr 10, 2002
D-AZ	Ed Pastor		Apr 11, 2002
R-VA	Eric Cantor		Apr 11, 2002
R-OK	John Sullivan		Apr 11, 2002
D-TX	Solomon P. Ortiz		Apr 11, 2002
R-NE	Lee Terry		Apr 16, 2002
R-NC	Charles H. Taylor		Apr 23, 2002
I-VT	Bernard Sanders		Apr 24, 2002
R-OK	Frank D. Lucas		Apr 24, 2002
R-MO	Kenny C. Hulshof		Apr 24, 2002
D-NC	David E. Price		Apr 25, 2002
R-NC	Richard Burr		Apr 25, 2002
R-NJ	Frank A. LoBiondo		May 9, 2002
R-NC	Howard Coble		May 9, 2002
R-AR	John Boozman		May 9, 2002
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott		May 14, 2002
D-TX	Silvestre Reyes		May 14, 2002
D-WI	Thomas M. Barrett		May 14, 2002
D-NC	Melvin L. Watt		May 22, 2002
R-CO	Scott McInnis		May 22, 2002
D-TX	Ciro D. Rodriguez		May 23, 2002
D-GA	Cynthia A. McKinney		Jun 4, 2002
R-GA	Bob Barr		Jun 6, 2002
D-CT	John B. Larson		Jun 11, 2002
R-VA	Frank R. Wolf		Jun 12, 2002
D-MO	Ike Skelton		Jul 18, 2002
D-TX	Martin Frost		Jul 18, 2002
R-MT	Denny Rehberg		Sep 24, 2002

Committees 2

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Ways and Means Committee	Referred Apr 26, 2001
	Health Subcommittee	Referred May 3, 2001
House	Energy and Commerce Committee	Referred Apr 26, 2001
	Health Subcommittee	Referred May 8, 2001

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

May 8, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
May 3, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Apr 26, 2001Introduced in House
Apr 26, 2001Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.

Research

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Printed hearings 1

Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.

Number	Hearing	Committee	Held
Serial No. 107-85	MEDICARE'S GEOGRAPHIC COST ADJUSTORS179 pages	Ways and Means Committee	Jul 23, 2002

Titles 1

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for national standardized payment amounts for inpatient hospital services furnished under the Medicare Program.

Subjects

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Text 1

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Apr 26, 2001Introduced in House

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