Title: Helping Hospitals in Need Act
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Helping Hospitals in Need Act
This bill provides additional appropriations for the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund for (1) hospitals and health care providers that serve a high proportion of uninsured or low-income patients, and (2) states and territories that have the highest per capita hospitalization rates for confirmed cases of COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019).

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6605 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6605

To provide additional amounts to the Public Health and Social Services 
                Emergency Fund, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 23, 2020

  Mrs. Hayes introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Appropriations

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide additional amounts to the Public Health and Social Services 
                Emergency Fund, 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 ``Helping Hospitals in Need Act''.

SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES 
              EMERGENCY FUND.

    (a) Additional Appropriation.--There is hereby appropriated, out of 
any amounts in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 
$100,000,000,000 for an additional amount for ``Department of Health 
and Human Services--Office of the Secretary--Public Health and Social 
Services Emergency Fund'', to be merged with amounts made available to 
such account by division B of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic 
Security Act (Public Law 116-136).
    (b) Purposes of Funds.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services 
shall seek to obligate and expend the amount appropriated by subsection 
(a) in a manner that prioritizes funding for--
            (1) hospitals and health care providers that the Secretary 
        determines serve a high proportion of uninsured or low income 
        patients, including based on--
                    (A) whether the hospital has received 
                disproportionate share hospital payments under section 
                1886(r) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395ww) 
                with respect to fiscal year 2019;
                    (B) whether the hospital has received 
                disproportionate share hospital payments under section 
                1925 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1396r-6) with respect to 
                fiscal year 2019; and
                    (C) any other factors specified by the Secretary, 
                including whether the hospital is identified as a 
                ``safety-net hospital'' by the National Academy of 
                Medicine; and
            (2) States, including the District of Columbia and the 
        territories or possessions of the United States, that the 
        Secretary, in coordination with the Director of the Centers for 
        Disease Control and Prevention, determines to have the highest 
        per capita hospitalization rates for confirmed cases of COVID-
        19.
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