To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to make rural health care improvements under the Medicare Program.

Summary

Title III: Rural Health Care Improvements (sic) - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to provide that starting for discharges on or after October 1, 2002, hospitals (other than urban hospitals with a 100 or more beds or certain public hospitals) will receive payments based on a blend of their current disproportionate share (DSH) adjustment and the current DSH adjustment for large urban hospitals. Limits such new DSH adjustment. Provides that for discharges occurring: (1) during FY 2003, the average standardized amount for hospitals located other than in a large urban area shall be increased by half the difference between the average standardized amount for hospitals located in large urban areas for such fiscal year and such amount determined for other hospitals for such fiscal year; and (2) during FY 2004 and afterwards, the Secretary shall compute one standardized amount for all hospitals increased by the applicable percentage increase, and use this amount to pay all hospitals. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, after revising the market basket cost weights to reflect the most current data available, to establish a frequency for revising such weights in such market basket to reflect the most current data available more frequently than once every five years. Revises the critical access hospital program. Amends the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000 to extend the ten percent additional payment for home health care furnished to beneficiaries residing in rural areas. Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study for a report to Congress on differences in payment amounts under the physician fee schedule for physicians' services in different geographic areas. Amends SSA title XI to provide that any remuneration in the form of a contract, lease, grant, loan, or other agreement between a public or non-profit private health center and any individual or entity providing goods or services to the health center is not a violation of the anti-kickback statute if such agreement contributes to the ability of the health center to maintain or increase the availability or quality of services provided to a medically underserved population served by the health center.

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• Reported to House without amendment

  summary · EN · 26 June 2002

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  Introduced in House · EN · 19 June 2002

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  summary · EN · 19 June 2002

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