A bill to require the Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration and the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission to research and develop a method for taking into account complications and morbidity variations among discharges in making payments for inpatient hospital services under the medicare DRG-payment system.

referredUnited States· United States Congress· EN

Introduced

3 October 1986

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Status

Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.

Summary

Requires the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission and the Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration to: (1) research and develop a method which accounts for complications and morbidity variations among diagnosis-related groups in determining payments for inpatient hospital services under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act; and (2) report the results to the Congress by the close of FY 1987.

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Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/99th-congress/house-bill/5647
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