HR 3961 · 111th Congress · Health
An Act to extend expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 and Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 until February 28, 2011.
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EnactedLatest: Became Public Law No: 111-141.(2010-02-27)
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Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise the Medicare sustainable growth rate (SGR) payment system for determining the annual updates to the Medicare physician fee schedule. Sets as a transitional update for 2010 to the single conversion factor in the formula for determining the schedule the percentage increase in the Medicare economic index (MEI, a price index of inputs required to produce physician services). Rebases the update adjustment factor for 2011 and subsequent years by: (1) making the allowed expenditures for 2009 under the schedule equal to the actual expenditures for physicians' services during 2009; and (2) changing from 1996 to 2009 (or, if later, the fifth year before the year involved) the reference point for calculating the cumulative adjustment component to expenditure targets in the formula. Limits to physicians' services under the fee schedule (excluding those incidental to a physician visit) the services covered in the target growth rate computation. Establishes two categories of physician services: (1) evaluation, management, and preventive services; and (2) all other physician services…
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CBO Cost Estimate
Congressional Budget OfficeH.R. 3961, Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009
Nov 4, 2009<p>Cost estimate for the bill as introduced on October 29, 2009</p>
Full CBO report ↗H.R. 3961, Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009
Nov 4, 2009Cost estimate for the bill as introduced on October 29, 2009
Full CBO report ↗Official non-partisan budget analysis by the Congressional Budget Office