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[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2108 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2108

   To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for an 
  extension of certain long-term care hospital payment rules and the 
  moratorium on the establishment of certain hospitals and facilities.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 30, 2015

Mr. Toomey (for himself and Mr. Bennet) 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 an 
  extension of certain long-term care hospital payment rules and the 
  moratorium on the establishment of certain hospitals and facilities.

    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 ``Preserving Patient Access to Post-
Acute Hospital Care Act of 2015''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF CERTAIN LTCH PAYMENT RULES AND MORATORIUM ON THE 
              ESTABLISHMENT OF CERTAIN HOSPITALS AND FACILITIES.

    (a) Extension of Certain Payment Rules.--
            (1) Payment for hospitals-within-hospitals.--Paragraph 
        (2)(C) of section 114(c) of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP 
        Extension Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 1395ww note), as amended by 
        sections 3106(a) and 10312(a) of Public Law 111-148 and section 
        1206(b)(1)(A) of the Pathway for SGR Reform Act of 2013 
        (division B of Public Law 113-67), is amended by striking ``for 
        a 9-year period'' and inserting ``and before October 1, 2018''.
            (2) 25 percent patient threshold payment adjustment.--
        Section 114(c)(1)(A) of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP 
        Extension Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 1395ww note), as amended by 
        sections 3106(a) and 10312(a) of Public Law 111-148 and section 
        1206(b)(1)(B) of the Pathway for SGR Reform Act of 2013 
        (division B of Public Law 113-67), is amended by striking ``for 
        a 9-year period'' and inserting ``and before October 1, 2018''.
    (b) Extension of Moratorium on Establishment of and Increase in 
Beds for LTCHs.--Section 114(d) of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP 
Extension Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 1395ww note), as amended by sections 
3106(b) and 10312(b) of Public Law 111-148, section 1206(b)(2) of the 
Pathway for SGR Reform Act of 2013 (division B of Public Law 113-67), 
and section 112 of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 
(Public Law 113-93), is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), in the matter preceding subparagraph 
        (A), by striking ``September 30, 2017'' and inserting 
        ``September 30, 2019''; and
            (2) in paragraph (6), by striking ``September 30, 2017'' 
        and inserting ``September 30, 2019''.
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