Protecting Access to Spinal Surgeries Act

Protecting Access to Spinal Surgeries Act

This bill extends an exception to the application of site-neutral payment rates under the Medicare inpatient prospective payment system.

Currently, certain long-term care hospitals that primarily treat spinal cord injuries are excluded from such payment rates through FY2019 if they meet certain other criteria (e.g., a significant number of discharges of out-of-state patients in FY2014). The bill extends this exception through FY2024.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4040 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4040

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to extend the temporary 
 exception to the application of the site neutral IPPS payment rate to 
discharges from certain spinal cord specialty hospitals, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 25, 2019

Mr. Lewis (for himself, Mr. Crow, Mr. Perlmutter, Mrs. McBath, and Ms. 
   DeGette) 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 extend the temporary 
 exception to the application of the site neutral IPPS payment rate to 
discharges from certain spinal cord specialty hospitals, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``Protecting Access to Spinal 
Surgeries Act''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF TEMPORARY EXCEPTION TO APPLICATION OF SITE NEUTRAL 
              IPPS PAYMENT RATE TO DISCHARGES FROM CERTAIN SPINAL CORD 
              SPECIALTY HOSPITALS.

    Section 1886(m)(6)(F) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1395ww(m)(6)(F)) is amended by striking ``fiscal years 2018 and 2019'' 
and inserting ``any of fiscal years 2018 through 2024''.
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