Hospital Reclassification Correction Act of 2010
Latest action · May 28, 2010 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
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.
- IntroducedMay 28, 2010
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Hospital Reclassification Correction Act of 2010 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to prohibit the Medicare Geographic Classification Review Board, in rendering decisions on applications for a change in geographic classification, from rejecting the application of a hospital which is the only subsection (d) hospital in its Metropolitan Statistical Area on the basis of any comparison between the hospital's average hourly wage and the average hourly wage of hospitals in the area in which it is located.
(Generally, a subsection [d] hospital is an acute care hospital particularly one that receives payment under Medicare's inpatient prospective payment system [IPPS] when providing covered inpatient services to eligible beneficiaries.)
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 2
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- May 28, 2010Introduced in House
- May 28, 2010Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
Text 1
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- May 28, 2010Introduced in House
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