A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require the continued application of the nursing salary cost differential which is presently allowed in determining the reasonable cost of inpatient and nursing care for purposes of reimbursement to providers under the medicare program.

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Introduced

4 January 1977

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Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.

Summary

Amends Title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide that in determining the reasonable reimbursable cost of inpatient nursing care, such coverage, at a minimum, shall include a salary cost differential of at least eight and one-half percent in recognition of the above-average cost of furnishing such care to aged patients.

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Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/95th-congress/house-bill/609
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