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H.R.4236
Sponsor: Rep Foley, Mark (introduced 4/11/2000)
Latest Major Action: 4/24/2000 Referred to House subcommittee
Title: To amend part C of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve payments under the Medicare+Choice Program.
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TITLE(S):  (italics indicate a title for a portion of a bill)
STATUS: (color indicates Senate actions)
4/11/2000:
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
4/11/2000:
Referred to House Ways and Means
4/24/2000:
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
4/11/2000:
Referred to House Commerce
4/24/2000:
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.
COMMITTEE(S):
RELATED BILL DETAILS:

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AMENDMENT(S):

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COSPONSORS(7), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]:     (Sort: by date)

Rep Bass, Charles F. - 4/11/2000 Rep Canady, Charles T. - 4/11/2000
Rep Cook, Merrill - 4/11/2000 Rep Fowler, Tillie - 7/24/2000
Rep Hayworth, J. D. - 6/8/2000 Rep Kelly, Sue W. - 4/11/2000
Rep Souder, Mark E. - 4/12/2000

SUMMARY AS OF:
4/11/2000--Introduced.

Seniors Health Choice Preservation Act of 2000 - Amends part C (Medicare+Choice) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with regard to: (1) application of the budget neutrality principle to the new Medicare+Choice risk adjustment methodology; (2) establishment of health-status risk adjustment methodology; (3) an additional minimum annual increase in Medicare+Choice capitation rates; and (4) payment of an additional drug inflation differential for Medicare+Choice plans offering qualified prescription drug coverage.

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to discontinue immediately all activity related to requiring Medicare+Choice organizations to submit encounter data for sites other than hospital inpatient departments, before final regulations are promulgated implementing the health-status risk adjustment methodology established under this Act.