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8/3/2007--Introduced.<br/>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.<br/>

1186113600 2007-08-03 Fri Nov 07 16:31:35 -0600 2008 introduced 45825 'b':6 '1.0':20 'act':14 'bill':2 'cost':32 'gpci':34 'part':5 'titl':8 'work':28 'amend':4 'floor':18 'indic':33 'secur':13 'xviii':9 'expens':24,29 'provid':16 'social':12 'medicar':37 'practic':23,31 'program':38 'geograph':30 49269 official introduced 45825 'act':5 '2007':7 'access':4 'equiti':2 'medicar':1 51831 short introduced 45825 1186113600 Fri Aug 03 00:00:00 -0500 2007 127042 H000206 1939-11-19 731 Hart Senate Office Building http://harkin.senate.gov/c/index.cfm 202-224-9369 Thomas 'd':4 'ia':5 'sen':1 'tom':8 'thoma':2,6,9 'harkin':3,7,10 M 300051 Harkin Tom_Harkin Sen. Thomas Harkin [D, IA] Tom N00004207 9285 Democrat 202-224-3254 Roman Catholic IA Tom Thomas Harkin 3.22222222222222 http://harkin.senate.gov/ SenatorTomHarkin introduced 45825 1186113600 Fri Aug 03 00:00:00 -0500 2007 127042 action 45825 1186113600 Fri Aug 03 00:00:00 -0500 2007 127043 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.