Medicare Hospital Marketbasket Adjustment Act

Summary

Medicare Hospital Marketbasket Adjustment Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to limit the increase in hospital costs to the increase in the marketbasket of hospital costs. (Current law provides that the rate of increase for hospitals shall be the marketbasket plus one percent.) Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to report to Congress annually on the introduction of new health care technologies.

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Timeline

1. 14 June 1984

   Introduced

   Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 14 June 1984

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 14 June 1984

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

4. 19 June 1984

   Referred

   Referred to Subcommittee on Trade.

   Source: Committee

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1 official file

• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 14 June 1984

  Open at official source

Sponsors

• Rep. Pepper, Claude [D-FL-14] · D · Sponsor
• Rep. Burton, Sala [D-CA-5] · D · Sponsor
• Rep. Stokes, Louis [D-OH-21] · D · Sponsor
• Rep. Owens, Major R. [D-NY-12] · D · Sponsor
• Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-11] · D · Sponsor
• Rep. Mitchell, Parren J. [D-MD-7] · D · Sponsor
• Rep. Solarz, Stephen J. [D-NY-13] · D · Sponsor
• Rep. Coleman, Ronald D. [D-TX-16] · D · Sponsor
• Rep. Ford, Harold E. [D-TN-8] · D · Sponsor
• Rep. Collins, Cardiss [D-IL-7] · D · Sponsor
• Rep. Fascell, Dante B. [D-FL-15] · D · Sponsor
• Rep. Minish, Joseph G. [D-NJ-11] · D · Sponsor
• Rep. Ratchford, William R. [D-CT-5] · D · Sponsor
• Rep. McNulty, James F., Jr. [D-AZ-5] · D · Sponsor
• Rep. Biaggi, Mario [D-NY-10] · D · Sponsor
• · hswm00 · Standing

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