Help Our Hospitals Act of 2011

Help Our Hospitals Act of 2011 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care Education Reconciliation Act of 2011, to repeal their reductions to Medicare disproportionate share (DSH) payments for FY2015 and ensuing fiscal years, especially to subsection (d) hospitals, to reflect lower uncompensated care costs relative to increases in the number of insured.

(Generally, a subsection [d] hospital is an acute care hospital, particularly one that receives payments under Medicare's inpatient prospective payment system when providing covered inpatient services to eligible beneficiaries.)

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3633 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3633

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the reduction 
  in Medicare disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments made by 
    section 3133 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 12, 2011

   Ms. Buerkle (for herself and Mr. King of New York) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the reduction 
  in Medicare disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments made by 
    section 3133 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

    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 ``Help Our Hospitals Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF MEDICARE DSH REDUCTIONS UNDER ACA.

    Section 1886 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395ww), as 
amended by section 3133 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care 
Act (Public Law 111-148) and section 1104 of the Health Care and 
Education Reconciliation Act of 2011 (Public Law 111-152), is amended--
            (1) in subsection (d)(5)(F)(i), by striking ``Subject to 
        subsection (r), for'' and inserting ``For''; and
            (2) by striking subsection (r).
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