HR 4304 · 108th Congress 2003–2005, ended

Medicare Preservation and Anti-Privatization Act

Introduced May 6, 2004 Originated House Sponsor Leonard L. Boswell D-IA

Fact sheet

Latest action · May 21, 2004 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.

  1. IntroducedMay 6, 2004
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Medicare Preservation and Anti-Privatization Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA), as added by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, to eliminate the MA Regional Plan Stabilization Fund.

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide, beginning with 2005, for adjustment of payment rates to Medicare+Choice organizations so that they reflect only the payment at 100 percent of the fee-for-service rate.

Provides that, in applying risk adjustment factors to payment to Medicare+Choice organizations in a budget neutral manner, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall assure that such factors, in the aggregate, take into account the actual characteristics of the entire Medicare population, and not merely the population of individuals enrolled under a Medicare+Choice plan under part C (Medicare+Choice) of SSA title XVIII.

Cosponsors 59

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 6, 2004 to Jul 15, 2004, with 51 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-FLAlcee L. HastingsOriginalMay 6, 2004
D-CAAnna G. EshooOriginalMay 6, 2004
D-NYAnthony D. WeinerOriginalMay 6, 2004
D-NYCarolyn B. MaloneyOriginalMay 6, 2004
D-MICarolyn C. KilpatrickOriginalMay 6, 2004
D-NYCharles B. RangelOriginalMay 6, 2004
D-TXCiro D. RodriguezOriginalMay 6, 2004
D-MIDale E. KildeeOriginalMay 6, 2004
D-CADiane E. WatsonOriginalMay 6, 2004
D-CAFortney Pete StarkOriginalMay 6, 2004
D-NJFrank Pallone, Jr.OriginalMay 6, 2004
D-TXGene GreenOriginalMay 6, 2004
D-CAGeorge MillerOriginalMay 6, 2004
D-CAHilda L. SolisOriginalMay 6, 2004
D-MNJames L. OberstarOriginalMay 6, 2004
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Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. May 21, 2004Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
  2. May 11, 2004Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
  3. May 6, 2004Introduced in House
  4. May 6, 2004Referred 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.

Subjects

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  1. May 6, 2004Introduced in House

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