S.1135: Hospital Payment Fairness Act of 2015

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Bill Summary

Hospital Payment Fairness Act of 2015 Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to sunset on October 1, 2015, the application of budget neutrality on a national basis in the calculation of the Medicare hospital wage index floor. (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...

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Date Description
April 29, 2015
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
April 29, 2015

Introduced in the Senate by Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.)

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