To delay for one year certain amendments to the Medicaid program made by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-2949
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R-WA-5]
Introduced: 2013-08-01
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care

Health care costs and insurance

Health care coverage and access

Health information and medical records

Health programs administration and funding

Medicaid
Latest action: action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-08-01
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), to delay from January 1, 2014 to January 1, 2015, the mandate to cover individuals with an income at or below 133% of the poverty line, as well as the state option to cover them.</p> <p>Delays for a year certain reports on such coverage by the states to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) and by the Secretary to Congress.</p>  <p>Revises the increased federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) for newly eligible mandatory individuals to repeal the 100% FMAP for 2014, but keep it for 2015 and 2016.</p> <p>Delays from the two-year period between January 1, 2014, and December 31, 2015, to the two-year period between January 1, 2015, and December 31, 2016, the increase in the FMAP by 2.2% for certain states for expenditures for individuals who are not newly eligible. </p> <p>Delays until January 1, 2015, application of the special FMAP for a Medicaid expansion state with respect to certain nonpregnant childless adults whom the state may require to enroll in benchmark coverage. </p> <p>Delays from January 1, 2014, to January 1, 2015, the effective date of the requirement that any benchmark benefit package or benchmark equivalent coverage provide certain minimum essential health benefits prescribed by PPACA.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2949 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES August 1, 2013 Mrs. McMorris Rodgers introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To delay for one year certain amendments to the Medicaid program made by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and for other purposes.

1. Delay of ACA Medicaid provisions (a) Medicaid expansion To cover individuals with income at or below 133 percent of the poverty line Section 1902(a)(10)(A)(i)(VIII) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)(10)(A)(i)(VIII)) is amended by striking January 1, 2014 and inserting January 1, 2015 . (b) State option for coverage for individuals with income that exceeds 133 percent of the poverty line Section 1902(a)(10)(A)(ii)(XX) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)(10)(A)(ii)(XX) ) is amended by striking January 1, 2014 and inserting January 1, 2015 . (c) Annual enrollment reports (1) State reports Section 1902(a)(75) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)(75)) is amended by striking January 2015 and inserting January 2016 . (2) Reports to Congress Section 2001(d)(2) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( Public Law 111–148 ; 124 Stat. 278) is amended by striking April 2015 and inserting April 2016 . (d) Increased FMAP for medical assistance for newly eligible mandatory individuals Section 1905(y)(1)(A) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396d(y)(1)(A)) is amended by striking 2014, 2015, and 2016 and inserting 2015 and 2016 . (e) Equitable support for certain States Section 1905(z) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1396d(z) ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (1)(A), by striking January 1, 2014, and ends on December 31, 2015 and inserting January 1, 2015, and ends on December 31, 2016 ; and (2) in paragraph (2)— (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking 2014 and inserting 2015 ; and (B) in subparagraph (B)(ii)— (i) by striking subclauses (I) and (II); and (ii) by redesignating subclauses (III) through (VI) as subclauses (I) through (IV), respectively. (f) Application of minimum essential benefits to benchmark coverage Section 1937(b)(5) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1396u–7(b)(5) ) is amended by striking January 1, 2014 and inserting January 1, 2015 . 2. Effective date If this Act is enacted on or after November 1, 2013, the amendments made by section 1 to sections 1902, 1905, and 1937 of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1396a , 1396d, and 1396u–7) and section 2001(d)(2) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( Public Law 111–148 ; 124 Stat. 278) shall not be effective until the first day of the first calendar quarter beginning not earlier than 60 days after such date.