Reduction In Medicare Overpayment Costs Act of 1997
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What it doesSummary introduced in house (Jun 3, 1997)
Reduction In Medicare Overpayment Costs Act of 1997 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) provide for the imposition of administrative fees for the failure of a Medicare provider to refund to the Secretary of Health and Human Services any amount by which prospective payment to the provider has exceeded actual costs by 30 percent or more (overpayment collection); and (2) require automated prepayment screening by fiscal intermediaries and carriers of a select portion of Medicare diagnoses that the Health Care Financing Administration has determined frequently result in overpayment under the program.
What just happenedJun 18, 1997
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in HouseJun 3, 1997
- Jun 18, 1997CommitteeH11000
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Health and Environment Subcommittee - Jun 17, 1997CommitteeH11000
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Health Subcommittee - Jun 3, 1997IntroReferralH11100
Referred to House Commerce
Energy and Commerce Committee - Jun 3, 1997IntroReferralH11100-A
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.
- Jun 3, 1997IntroReferralH11100
Referred to House Ways and Means
Ways and Means Committee - Jun 3, 1997IntroReferralB00100
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1080)
- Jun 3, 1997IntroReferralIntro-H
Introduced in House
- Jun 3, 1997IntroReferral1000
Introduced in House