To require Congressional approval for implementation of a severity-adjusted inpatient prospective payment system for rural hospitals under the Medicare Program.

Requires congressional approval for implementation of a severity-adjusted inpatient prospective payment system (PPS) for rural hospitals under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5942 Introduced in House (IH)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5942

  To require Congressional approval for implementation of a severity-
adjusted inpatient prospective payment system for rural hospitals under 
                         the Medicare Program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 27, 2006

 Mr. Marshall introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require Congressional approval for implementation of a severity-
adjusted inpatient prospective payment system for rural hospitals under 
                         the Medicare Program.

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

SECTION 1. REQUIRING CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF A 
              SEVERITY-ADJUSTED INPATIENT PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT SYSTEM 
              FOR RURAL HOSPITALS UNDER THE MEDICARE PROGRAM.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Health 
and Human Services may not implement a severity-adjusted inpatient 
prospective payment system under section 1886(d) of the Social Security 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1395ww(d)), including that contained in the proposed 
rule published in the Federal Register on April 25, 2006 (71 Federal 
Register 23995), for hospitals located in rural areas (as defined for 
purposes of such section) without the explicit approval of Congress.
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