Fairness for Rural Medicare Beneficiaries Act of 2021

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5660 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5660

 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to adjust coinsurance 
requirements for outpatient critical access hospital services furnished 
                      under the Medicare program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 21, 2021

  Mr. Cole (for himself and Mr. Kind) introduced the following bill; 
  which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in 
    addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to adjust coinsurance 
requirements for outpatient critical access hospital services furnished 
                      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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Fairness for Rural Medicare 
Beneficiaries Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. ADJUSTING COINSURANCE REQUIREMENTS FOR OUTPATIENT CRITICAL 
              ACCESS HOSPITAL SERVICES FURNISHED UNDER THE MEDICARE 
              PROGRAM.

    Section 1834(g) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395m(g)) is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``less 20 percent of the 
        amount specified under paragraph (6),'' after ``such 
        services,'';
            (2) in paragraph (2)(A), by inserting ``, less 20 percent 
        of the amount specified under paragraph (6)'' before the 
        period; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(6) Specified amount.--For purposes of paragraphs (1) and 
        (2)(A), the amount specified in this paragraph is, with respect 
        to services furnished by a critical access hospital, the amount 
        that would have been payable for such services under section 
        1833(t) had such services been covered OPD services.''.
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