A bill to amend the Social Security Act with respect to Medicare to protect the wage index for an urban area in a State if such wage index is below the rural wage index for such State for purposes of calculating payments to hospitals for inpatient hospital services, and for other purposes.

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Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide that: (1) in the case of an urban area with a wage index below the rural wage index applicable in the State, any decision rendered by the Medicare Geographical Classification Review Board or by the Secretary of Health and Human Services on an application by a hospital for a change in geographic classification may not result in a reduction of that urban area's wage index; and (2) no urban wage index in a State may be below the rural wage index applicable in the State.

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• Introduced in Senate (text)

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