Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Extension Act of 2014

Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Extension Act of 2014 - Amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, to extend the rural community hospital demonstration program from five through 10 years.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2187 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2187

 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a five-
 year extension of the rural community hospital demonstration program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 31, 2014

  Mr. Begich introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a five-
 year extension of the rural community hospital demonstration program.

    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 ``Rural Community Hospital 
Demonstration Extension Act of 2014''.

SEC. 2. FIVE-YEAR EXTENSION OF THE RURAL COMMUNITY HOSPITAL 
              DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM.

    (a) Extension.--Section 410A of the Medicare Prescription Drug, 
Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-173; 42 
U.S.C. 1395ww note), as amended by sections 3123 and 10313 of the 
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148), is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(5), by striking ``5-year extension 
        period'' and inserting ``10-year extension period''; and
            (2) in subsection (g)--
                    (A) in the subsection heading, by striking ``Five-
                Year'' and inserting ``Ten-Year'';
                    (B) in paragraph (1), by striking ``additional 5-
                year'' and inserting ``additional 10-year''; and
                    (C) by striking ``5-year extension period'' each 
                place it appears and inserting ``10-year extension 
                period''.
    (b) Change in Timing for Report.--Subsection (e) of such section 
410A is amended by striking ``Not later than 6 months after the 
completion'' and inserting ``Not later than 1 year prior to the 
completion''.
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