A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the reduced Medicare payment for new providers PDF
Preview A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the reduced Medicare payment for new providers
n 103dcongress S.31 1stSession ToamendtitleXVTIIoftheSocialSecurityActtorepealthereduced medicarepaymentprovisionfornewproviders. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES January21(legislativeday,Jaxuary5),1993 Mr.McCainintroducedthefollo%vingbill;whichwasreadtwiceandreferred totheCommitteeonFinance A BILL ToamendtitleXVIIIoftheSocialSecurityActtorepeal thereducedmedicarepaymentprovisionfornewproviders. 1 BeitenactedhytheSenateandHouseofRepresenta- 2 tivesoftheUnitedStatesofAmericainCongressassembled, 3 SECTION1.SHORTTITLE. 4 This Act may be cited as the "Medicare Provider 5 PaymentEquityActof1993". 6 SEC.2.REPEALOFREDUCEDMEDICAREPAYMENTPROVI- 7 SIONFORNEWPROVIDERS. 8 (a) Physicians.—Section 1848(a) (42 U.S.C. 9 1395w-4(a))isamendedbyrepealingparagraph(4). ensLIBRftRV 2 3 flDTS DDL7fl5b E — 1 (b) Other Practitioners. Section 1842(b)(4) 2 (42U.S.C. 1395u(b)(4)) isamendedbystrikingsubpara- 3 graph(F). — 4 (c)BudgetNeutrality. TheSecretaryofHealth 5 andHumanServicesshallprovidethatincarrjdngoutthe 6 amendments made by subsections (a) and (b) that pay- 7 mentsundersection 1848 ofthe Social SecurityAct are 8 nogreaterorlesserthanwhatsuchpaymentswouldhave 9 beenbutfortheprovisionsofthisAct. — 10 (d) Effective Date. The amendments made by 11 subsections (a) and (b) shall apply^vithrespecttophysi- 12 cians'servicesfurnishedonorafterJanuary1,1993. O S31IS
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