Dr. Joanne Smith Memorial Rehabilitation Innovation Centers Act of 2022
Bill: H.R.9271 | Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. (D-IL)
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Dr. Joanne Smith Memorial Rehabilitation Innovation Centers Act of 2022
This bill directs the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to publish and biennially update a list of all rehabilitation innovation centers. The bill defines rehabilitation innovation centers as rehabilitation facilities that (1) hold specified federal research and training designations for traumatic brain injury or spinal cord injury research, and (2) serve at least a certain number of Medicare patients. The CMS may waive such criteria as it deems appropriate.

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to preserve access to 
     rehabilitation innovation centers 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 ``Dr. Joanne Smith Memorial 
Rehabilitation Innovation Centers Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. PRESERVING ACCESS TO REHABILITATION INNOVATION CENTERS UNDER 
              MEDICARE.

    (a) In General.--Section 1886(j)(7)(E) of the Social Security Act 
(42 U.S.C. 1395ww(j)(7)(E)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``Public availability of data submitted.--
        The'' and inserting ``Public availability of data submitted.--
                            ``(i) In general.--The''; and
            (2) by inserting after clause (i), as redesignated by 
        paragraph (1), the following new clauses:
                            ``(ii) Public recognition of rehabilitation 
                        innovation centers.--Beginning not later than 
                        18 months after the date of the enactment of 
                        this clause, the Secretary shall make publicly 
                        available on such Internet website, in addition 
                        to the information required to be reported on 
                        such website under clause (i), a list of all 
                        rehabilitation innovation centers, and shall 
                        update such list on such website not less 
                        frequently than biennially. In carrying out the 
                        activities under this clause, the Secretary 
                        may, as permitted by law, disseminate research, 
                        best practices, and other clinical information 
                        identified or developed by such rehabilitation 
                        innovation centers to, as determined 
                        appropriate by the Secretary, Federal agencies, 
                        hospitals, health professional organizations, 
                        and national and State accreditation bodies.
                            ``(iii) Rehabilitation innovation centers 
                        defined.--For purposes of clause (ii), the term 
                        `rehabilitation innovation centers' means a 
                        rehabilitation facility that, as of the 
                        applicable date (as defined in clause (v)), is 
                        a rehabilitation facility described in clause 
                        (iv).
                            ``(iv) Rehabilitation facility described.--
                                    ``(I) In general.--Subject to 
                                subclause (II), a rehabilitation 
                                facility described in this clause is a 
                                rehabilitation facility that--
                                            ``(aa) is classified as a 
                                        rehabilitation facility under 
                                        the IRF Rate Setting File for 
                                        the Inpatient Rehabilitation 
                                        Facility Prospective Payment 
                                        System for Federal Fiscal Year 
                                        2019 (83 Fed. Reg. 38514), or 
                                        any successor regulations that 
                                        contain such information;
                                            ``(bb) holds at least one 
                                        Federal rehabilitation research 
                                        and training designation for 
                                        research projects on traumatic 
                                        brain injury or spinal cord 
                                        injury from the National 
                                        Institute on Disability, 
                                        Independent Living, and 
                                        Rehabilitation Research at the 
                                        Department of Health and Human 
                                        Services, based on such data 
                                        submitted to the Secretary by a 
                                        facility, in a form, manner, 
                                        and time frame specified by the 
                                        Secretary;
                                            ``(cc) submits to the 
                                        Secretary a description of the 
                                        clinical research enterprise of 
                                        the facility and a summary of 
                                        research activities of the 
                                        facility that are supported by 
                                        Federal agencies;
                                            ``(dd) has a minimum 
                                        Medicare estimated weight per 
                                        discharge of 1.20 for the most 
                                        recent fiscal year for which 
                                        such information is available 
                                        according to the IRF Rate 
                                        Setting File described in item 
                                        (aa), or any successor 
                                        regulations that contain such 
                                        information; and
                                            ``(ee) has a minimum 
                                        teaching status of 0.075 for 
                                        the most recent fiscal year for 
                                        which such information is 
                                        available according to the IRF 
                                        Rate Setting File described in 
                                        item (aa), or any successor 
                                        regulations that contain such 
                                        information.
                                    ``(II) Waiver.--The Secretary may, 
                                as determined appropriate, waive any of 
                                the requirements under items (aa) 
                                through (ee) of subclause (I).
                            ``(v) Applicable date defined.--For 
                        purposes of clauses (iii) and (iv), the term 
                        `applicable date' means--
                                    ``(I) with respect to the initial 
                                publication of a list under clause 
                                (ii), the date of the enactment of such 
                                clause; and
                                    ``(II) with respect to the 
                                publication of an updated list under 
                                clause (ii), a date specified by the 
                                Secretary that is not more than one 
                                year prior to the date of such 
                                publication.
                            ``(vi) Implementation.--Notwithstanding any 
                        other provision of law the Secretary may 
                        implement clauses (ii) through (v) by program 
                        instruction or otherwise.
                            ``(vii) Nonapplication of paperwork 
                        reduction act.--Chapter 35 of title 44, United 
                        States Code, shall not apply to data collected 
                        under clauses (ii) through (v).''.
    (b) Report.--Not later than 3 years after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall submit to 
Congress a report containing any recommendations for such legislation 
or administrative action as the Secretary determines appropriate to 
preserve access to rehabilitation innovation centers (as defined in 
section 1886(j)(7)(E)(iii) of the Social Security Act, as added by 
subsection (a)).
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