HR 1459 · 110th Congress 2007–2009, ended

To improve Medicare beneficiary access by extending the 60 percent compliance threshold used to determine whether a hospital or unit of a hospital is an inpatient rehabilitation facility.

Introduced Mar 9, 2007 Originated House Sponsor John S. Tanner D-TN

Fact sheet

Latest action · Mar 13, 2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Progress

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  1. IntroducedMar 9, 2007
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Amends the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 to revise the classification criterion used to determine whether a hospital or hospital unit is an inpatient rehabilitation facility under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act. Eliminates the current schedule of applicable percentages. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, instead, to require in the classification criterion a compliance rate no greater than the 60% compliance rate that became effective for cost reporting periods beginning on or after July 1, 2006.

Requires the Secretary, for cost reporting periods beginning on or after July 1, 2008, to include patients with comorbidity in the inpatient population that counts towards such 60% compliance rate.

Requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Medicare fiscal intermediaries, Medicare administrative contractors, recovery audit contractors, and other government agents to use and apply the criteria established in HCFA Ruling 85-2, as issued on July 31, 1985, as the sole standard for determining the medical necessity of servivces provided by inpatient rehabilitation hospitals and units to Medicare beneficiaries.

Directs the Secretary to report to specified congressional committees: (1) an examination of the impact of the 75% rule on the Medicare program, and specifically on Medicare beneficiaries; and (2) alternatives to the 75% rule policy for determining exclusion criteria for inpatient rehabilitation hospital and unit designation under the Medicare program.

Cosponsors 240

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 9, 2007 to Jun 12, 2008, with 83 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-FLAllen BoydOriginalMar 9, 2007
D-PAAllyson Y. SchwartzOriginalMar 9, 2007
D-ALArtur DavisOriginalMar 9, 2007
D-MABarney FrankOriginalMar 9, 2007
D-TNBart GordonOriginalMar 9, 2007
D-MNBetty McCollumOriginalMar 9, 2007
D-NJBill Pascrell, Jr.OriginalMar 9, 2007
R-PABill ShusterOriginalMar 9, 2007
D-NYBrian HigginsOriginalMar 9, 2007
D-NYCarolyn B. MaloneyOriginalMar 9, 2007
R-PACharles W. DentOriginalMar 9, 2007
R-NJChristopher H. SmithOriginalMar 9, 2007
D-KSDennis MooreOriginalMar 9, 2007
D-NJDonald M. PayneOriginalMar 9, 2007
D-MDElijah E. CummingsOriginalMar 9, 2007
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Actions 3

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  1. Mar 13, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
  2. Mar 9, 2007Introduced in House
  3. Mar 9, 2007Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Subjects

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  1. Mar 9, 2007Introduced in House

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