Hospital Payment Fairness Act of 2013

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Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 113th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

D McCaskillSponsor

28 cosponsors · 9 D, 19 R

1 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

Hospital Payment Fairness Act of 2013 - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to sunset on October 1, 2013, the application of budget neutrality on a national basis in the calculation of the Medicare hospital wage index floor.

What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in Senate · Jan 30, 2013

(PPACA requires application of the budget neutrality requirement associated with the effect of the imputed rural floor on the area wage index under the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 through a uniform national, instead of state-by-state, adjustment to the area hospital wage index floor.)

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov

About this bill and sources

Official title: Hospital Payment Fairness Act of 2013

Latest action (Jan 30, 2013): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Policy area: Health · Origin: Senate · Introduced: Jan 30, 2013

Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)

No recorded floor vote found.