Title: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a one-year waiver of budget neutrality adjustments under the Medicare physician fee schedule, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Health

Summary:
This bill excludes certain adjustments to payments for physician services under Medicare from budget neutrality requirements in FY2022. The bill also rescinds $10 billion of unobligated funds from the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5612 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5612

 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a one-
    year waiver of budget neutrality adjustments under the Medicare 
            physician fee schedule, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 19, 2021

 Mr. Burgess introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on 
  Ways and Means, and Appropriations, 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 committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a one-
    year waiver of budget neutrality adjustments under the Medicare 
            physician fee schedule, 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. ONE-YEAR WAIVER OF BUDGET NEUTRALITY ADJUSTMENTS UNDER 
              MEDICARE PHYSICIAN FEE SCHEDULE.

    (a) Waiver of Budget Neutrality Adjustments.--Section 1848(c)(2) of 
the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395w-4(c)(2)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (B)--
                    (A) in clause (ii)(II), by striking ``clauses (iv) 
                and (v)'' and inserting ``clauses (iv), (v), and 
                (vii)''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(vii) Non-application of budget 
                        neutrality adjustments for 2022.--The budget 
                        neutrality adjustments under clause (ii)(II) 
                        and subparagraph (F) shall not be applied for 
                        2022.''; and
            (2) in subparagraph (F), in the matter preceding clause 
        (i), by inserting ``, subject to subparagraph (B)(vii)'' after 
        ``The Secretary''.
    (b) Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund.--
            (1) In general.--From the unobligated balances of amounts 
        made available under the heading ``Department of Health and 
        Human Services--Office of the Secretary--Public Health and 
        Social Services Emergency Fund'' by the provisions listed in 
        subsection (b) (in the order of such provisions as specified by 
        the Secretary of Health and Human Services), $10,000,000,000, 
        to be derived from such amounts that are not allocated to 
        eligible health care providers or for provider relief, is 
        hereby rescinded.
            (2) Provisions.--The provisions listed in this subsection 
        are the following:
                    (A) Title VIII of division B of the Coronavirus 
                Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (Public Law 116-
                136).
                    (B) Title I of division B of the Paycheck 
                Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act 
                (Public Law 116-139).
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