To amend the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 to make permanent the exemption of grandfathered long-term care hospitals from the Medicare 25 percent threshold payment adjustment.

Amends the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 to make permanent the exemption of grandfathered long-term care hospitals from the 25% patient threshold payment adjustment under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3668 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3668

  To amend the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 to 
make permanent the exemption of grandfathered long-term care hospitals 
       from the Medicare 25 percent threshold payment adjustment.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 5, 2013

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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 to 
make permanent the exemption of grandfathered long-term care hospitals 
       from the Medicare 25 percent threshold payment adjustment.

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

SECTION 1. MAKING PERMANENT THE EXEMPTION OF GRANDFATHERED LONG-TERM 
              CARE HOSPITALS FROM THE MEDICARE 25 PERCENT PATIENT 
              THRESHOLD PAYMENT ADJUSTMENT.

    Section 114(c)(1) of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension 
Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 1395ww note), as amended by section 3106 of 
Public Law 111-148, is further amended--
            (1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking 
        ``for a 5-year period''; and
            (2) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ``for a 5-year 
        period,'' before ``section 412.536''.
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