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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6143 
To provide for certain Medicare program extensions, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 7, 2021 
Ms. SCHRIER (for herself and Mr. HORSFORD) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addi-
tion to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and the Budget, 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 com-
mittee concerned 
A BILL 
To provide for certain Medicare program extensions, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Supporting Health 
Care Providers During the COVID–19 Pandemic Act’’. 
SEC. 2. ADJUSTMENTS TO MEDICARE SEQUESTRATION RE-
DUCTIONS. 
(a) 
EXTENSION
OF
TEMPORARY
SUSPENSION 
THROUGH MARCH 2022.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 3709(a) of division 
A of the CARES Act (2 U.S.C. 901a note) is 
amended— 
(A) in the subsection header by inserting 
‘‘AND ADJUSTMENT’’ after ‘‘SUSPENSION’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘December 31, 2021’’ and 
inserting ‘‘March 31, 2022’’. 
(2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made 
by paragraph (1) shall take effect as if enacted as 
part of the CARES Act (Public Law 116–136). 
(b) ADJUSTMENTS TO MEDICARE PROGRAM SEQUES-
TRATION REDUCTION WITH RESPECT TO FISCAL YEARS 
2022 AND 2030.—Section 251A(6) of the Balanced Budg-
et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 
901a(6)) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as sub-
paragraph (E); and 
(2) by inserting after subparagraph (B) the fol-
lowing new subparagraphs: 
‘‘(C) Notwithstanding the 2 percent limit 
specified in subparagraph (A) for payments for 
the Medicare programs specified in section 
256(d), the sequestration order of the President 
under such subparagraph for fiscal year 2022 
shall be applied to such payments so that with 
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respect to the period beginning on April 1, 
2022, and ending on June 30, 2022, the pay-
ment reduction shall be 1.0 percent. 
‘‘(D) Notwithstanding the 2 percent limit 
specified in subparagraph (A) for payments for 
the Medicare programs specified in section 
256(d), the sequestration order of the President 
under such subparagraph for fiscal year 2030 
shall be applied to such payments so that— 
‘‘(i) with respect to the first 6 months 
in which such order is effective for such 
fiscal year, the payment reduction shall be 
2.25 percent; and 
‘‘(ii) with respect to the second 6 
months in which such order is so effective 
for such fiscal year, the payment reduction 
shall be 3 percent.’’. 
SEC. 3. EXTENSION OF SUPPORT FOR PHYSICIANS AND 
OTHER PROFESSIONALS IN ADJUSTING TO 
MEDICARE PAYMENT CHANGES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1848 of the Social Secu-
rity Act (42 U.S.C. 1395w–4) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (c)(2)(B)(iv)(V), by striking 
‘‘2021’’ and inserting ‘‘2021 or 2022’’; and 
(2) in subsection (t)— 
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(A) in the subsection header, by striking 
‘‘2021’’ and inserting ‘‘2021 AND 2022’’; 
(B) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘during 2021’’ and in-
serting ‘‘during 2021 and 2022’’; and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘for such services fur-
nished on or after January 1, 2021, and 
before January 1, 2022, by 3.75 percent.’’ 
and inserting ‘‘for— 
‘‘(A) such services furnished on or after 
January 1, 2021, and before January 1, 2022, 
by 3.75 percent; and 
‘‘(B) such services furnished on or after 
January 1, 2022, and before January 1, 2023, 
by 3.0 percent.’’; and 
(C) in paragraph (2)(C)— 
(i) in the subparagraph header, by 
striking ‘‘2021’’ and inserting ‘‘2021 AND 
2022’’; 
(ii) by inserting ‘‘for services fur-
nished in 2021 or 2022’’ after ‘‘under this 
subsection’’; and 
(iii) by inserting ‘‘or 2022, respec-
tively’’ before the period at the end. 
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SEC. 6. MEDICARE IMPROVEMENT FUND. 
Section 1898(b)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1395iii(b)(1)) is amended by striking ‘‘fiscal year 
2021’’ and all that follows through the period at the end 
and inserting ‘‘fiscal year 2021, $101,000,000.’’. 
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