Title: To prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from taking certain actions with respect to Medicaid supplemental payments reporting requirements, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Health

Summary:
This bill prohibits the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from finalizing or otherwise implementing the proposed rule titled Medicaid Program; Medicaid Fiscal Accountability Regulation, published on November 18, 2019, until two years after the last day of the public health emergency relating to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019).
The proposed rule establishes new reporting requirements for states with respect to supplemental payments and upper payment limits under Medicaid and generally modifies requirements relating to state Medicaid financing.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6521 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6521

  To prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from taking 
    certain actions with respect to Medicaid supplemental payments 
            reporting requirements, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 17, 2020

 Ms. Barragan (for herself and Mrs. Fletcher) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from taking 
    certain actions with respect to Medicaid supplemental payments 
            reporting requirements, 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. LIMITATION ON ADDITIONAL SECRETARIAL ACTION WITH RESPECT TO 
              MEDICAID SUPPLEMENTAL PAYMENTS REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, during 
the period that begins on the date of enactment of this section and 
ends the date that is 2 years after the last day of the emergency 
period defined in paragraph (1)(B) of section 1135(g) of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320b-5(g)), the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services shall not take any action (through promulgation of regulation, 
issue of regulatory guidance, or otherwise) to--
            (1) finalize or otherwise implement provisions contained in 
        the proposed rule published on November 18, 2019, on pages 
        63722 through 63785 of volume 84, Federal Register (relating to 
        parts 430, 433, 447, 455, and 457 of title 42, Code of Federal 
        Regulations); or
            (2) promulgate or implement any rule or provision similar 
        to the provisions described in paragraph (1) pertaining to the 
        Medicaid program established under title XIX of the Social 
        Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.) or the State Children's 
        Health Insurance Program established under title XXI of such 
        Act (42 U.S.C. 1397aa et seq.).
    (b) Continuation of Other Secretarial Authority.--Nothing in this 
section shall be construed as prohibiting the Secretary during the 
period described in subsection (a) from taking any action (through 
promulgation of regulation, issuance of regulatory guidance, or other 
administrative action) to enforce a provision of law in effect as of 
the date of enactment of this section with respect to the Medicaid 
program established under title XIX of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1396 et seq.) or the State Children's Health Insurance Program 
established under title XXI of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1397aa et seq.), or 
to promulgate or implement a new rule or provision during such period 
with respect to such programs, other than a rule or provision described 
in subsection (a) and subject to the prohibition set forth in that 
subsection.
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