Rural Equity Payment Index Reform Extension Act of 2006

Rural Equity Payment Index Reform Extension Act of 2006 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to extend permanently the floor (at 1.00) on the Medicare work geographic adjustment under the fee schedule for physicians' services.

(The Secretary of Health and Human Services is required, after calculating the work geographic index for payment for physicians' services furnished on or after January 1, 2004, to increase the work geographic index to 1.00 for any locality for which the calculated index is less than 1.00.)

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3516 Introduced in Senate (IS)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3516

 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to permanently extend 
  the floor on the Medicare work geographic adjustment under the fee 
                   schedule for physicians' services.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 15, 2006

 Mr. Bingaman (for himself, Ms. Snowe, Mr. Cochran, Ms. Cantwell, Mr. 
  Domenici, Mrs. Lincoln, Mr. Jeffords, Ms. Collins, Mrs. Murray, Mr. 
    Harkin, Ms. Landrieu, Mr. Obama, Mr. Salazar, and Mr. Sessions) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                          Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to permanently extend 
  the floor on the Medicare work geographic adjustment under the fee 
                   schedule for physicians' services.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Rural Equity Payment Index Reform 
Extension Act of 2006''.

SEC. 2. PERMANENT EXTENSION OF FLOOR ON MEDICARE WORK GEOGRAPHIC 
              ADJUSTMENT.

    Section 1848(e)(1)(E) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395w-
4(e)(1)(E)) is amended by striking ``and before January 1, 2007,''.
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