Patient Accessibility and Access To Community Healthcare Act or the PAATCH Act
This bill allows a hospital that was designated as a sole community hospital on or before March 13, 2020, to retain this status for a five-year period beginning on the date of the bill's enactment.
Sole community hospitals are rural hospitals or hospitals that are the sole source of inpatient care in a certain geographic area. Such hospitals receive specialized treatment with respect to Medicare payment, the 340B drug discount program, and other health care programs.
[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5093 Introduced in House (IH)]
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118th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 5093
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to preserve sole
community hospital determinations made by the Secretary of Health and
Human Services, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 28, 2023
Mr. Waltz (for himself, Mr. Bacon, and Mr. Rutherford) 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 preserve sole
community hospital determinations made by the Secretary of Health and
Human Services, 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 ``Patient Accessibility and Access To
Community Healthcare Act'' or the ``PAATCH Act''.
SEC. 2. PRESERVATION OF SOLE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL DETERMINATIONS MADE BY
THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES.
Section 1886(d)(5)(D)(iii) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
1395ww(d)(5)(D)(iii)) is amended--
(1) in subclause (II), by striking at the end ``or'';
(2) in subclause (III), by striking the period at the end
and inserting ``, or''; and
(3) by adding at the end the following new subclause:
``(IV) for the 5-year period
beginning on the date of the enactment
of this subclause, that met either of
the requirements specified in
subclauses (I) through (III) (as in
effect on the date of the enactment of
this subclause) on or before March 13,
2020.''.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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