S.2007 - Medicare Equity and Accessibility Act of 2007

A bill to amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide a floor of 1.0 for the practice expense and for the work expense geographic practice cost indices (GPCI) under the Medicare Program. view all titles (2)

All Bill Titles

  • Official: A bill to amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide a floor of 1.0 for the practice expense and for the work expense geographic practice cost indices (GPCI) under the Medicare Program. as introduced.
  • Short: Medicare Equity and Accessibility Act of 2007 as introduced.

This Bill currently has no wiki content. If you would like to create a wiki entry for this bill, please Login, and then select the wiki tab to create it.

Bill's Views

  • Today: 1
  • Past Seven Days: 2
  • All-Time: 782
 
Introduced
 
Senate
Passes
 
House
Passes
 
President
Signs
 

 
08/02/07
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Sponsor

Senator

Thomas Harkin

D-IA

No Co-Sponsors

Committees

Official Summary

8/3/2007--Introduced.Medicare Equity and Accessibility Act of 2007 - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to certain factors and indices in geographic adjustments to the fee schedule for determination of payments

Official Summary

8/3/2007--Introduced.
Medicare Equity and Accessibility Act of 2007 - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to certain factors and indices in geographic adjustments to the fee schedule for determination of payments for physicians' services. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to increase the practice expense geographic index to 1.0 for any location for which the practice expense geographic index is less than 1.0. Repeals the current termination date in order to extend permanently the 1.0 floor for the work expense geographic index.


...Read the Rest

FEED

Recent News Coverage

Hmmmm, no news coverage found for this bill at this time. This means that this this bill has not yet been mentioned on a publicly-searchable news website by either its official number (for example, "H.R. 3200") or title (for example, "America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009"). As soon as that changes, our daily automated search across the Web will catch it and include it here. If this bill is of interest to you, you can write a letter to the editor referring to this bill by name, and if your letter is published on the Web, a link back your letter will appear here within about one day. Or, if you know of a news article about this bill to display here, email us the web address of this page and the web address of your suggested news article: Our editorial team will post relevant links as quickly as possible. Thanks for helping to build public knowledge about Congress.

FEED

Recent Blog Coverage

View All (11)  |  View Top Rated

12/18/08
ARPA: Policy re-born? The Productivity Commission's paid maternity ...

Himmelweit, S. 2007, ‘The right to request flexible working: A ‘very British’ approach to gender (in)equality?’, Australian Bulletin of Labour, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 246–263. Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission 2002a, ...

Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
12/18/08
I likE plants!: Will Climate Change Cause the Spread of Invasive ...

See: Rosa, F., Ramos, J.V., and Ziller, S. 2007. Economic impacts of Eragrostis plana on the Southern Brazil grasslands. Biological Invasions (in prep.). The estimated damage from invasive species worldwide totals more than $1.4 ...

Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
08/21/08
PS I know U., 2008 – Part 4, Defense and Special Teams

Chances are that he’ll complete the move to LB before the season’s over, but he has a better chance to see the field at S. 2007: Played 154 snaps; 4 tkl. No. 26. Nick Sukay [Saf., RS Fr., 6-1/202] - Decent. Sukay has been hampered by ...

Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate









Vote on This Bill

-% Users Support Bill

0 in favor / 0 opposed
 

Send Your Senator a Letter

about this bill Support Oppose Tracking
Track with MyOC
Save to Notebook Make A Bill Widget

OpenCongress is a free and open-source project of the Participatory Politics Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with a mission to increase civic engagement. The non-profit Sunlight Foundation is the Founding and Primary Supporter of OpenCongress.