Medicare Long-Term Care Hospital Improvement Act of 2007
Latest action · Jan 24, 2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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.
- IntroducedJan 18, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Medicare Long-Term Care Hospital Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to prescribe requirements for a long-term care hospital (LTCH) and patient criteria for prospective payment to an LTCH.
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) determine the LTCH diagnosis related groups (LTCH-DRGs) associated with a high severity of illness for specified medical conditions; and (2) study and report to Congress on appropriate quality measures for Medicare patients receiving care in LTCHs.
Directs the Secretary to choose three quality measures from the study for LTCHs to report.
Amends the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000 to require annual updates of LTCH base rates and wage indices and the reweighting of LTCH-DRGs.
Prohibits the Secretary from extending application of the 25% (or applicable percentage) patient threshold payment adjustment to freestanding LTCHs.
Cosponsors 19
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 18, 2007 to May 24, 2007, with 1 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-ND | Earl Pomeroy | Original | Jan 18, 2007 |
| R-KY | Ron Lewis | Jan 23, 2007 | |
| D-LA | Rodney Alexander | Feb 8, 2007 | |
| D-TX | Sheila Jackson Lee | Feb 8, 2007 | |
| R-OH | Patrick J. Tiberi | Feb 15, 2007 | |
| R-TX | Sam Johnson | Feb 15, 2007 | |
| R-LA | Bobby Jindal | Mar 8, 2007 | |
| R-OK | Tom Cole | Mar 13, 2007 | |
| D-OH | Tim Ryan | Mar 22, 2007 | |
| R-NE | Lee Terry | Mar 29, 2007 | |
| D-LA | Charlie Melancon | Apr 19, 2007 | |
| D-MI | Dale E. Kildee | Apr 19, 2007 | |
| R-TX | Kevin Brady | Apr 26, 2007 | |
| D-OH | Charles A. Wilson | May 2, 2007 | |
| R-LA | Charles W. Boustany, Jr. | May 9, 2007 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 24, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Jan 18, 2007Introduced in House
- Jan 18, 2007Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Administrative procedure
- Cardiovascular diseases
- Case management
- Case mix (Medical care)
- Communicable diseases
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Digestive diseases
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Governmental investigations
- Health
- Health insurance
- Hospital care
- Hospital rates
- Hospitals
- Kidney diseases
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Long-term care
- Medicaid
- Medical records
- Medicare
- Metabolism
- Nervous system diseases
- Performance measurement
- Physicians
- Quality of care
- Respiratory diseases
- Skin diseases
- Social Welfare
- Wages
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 18, 2007Introduced in House
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