Defending Rural Access to Long Term Acute Care Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3365
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Walberg, Tim [R-MI-7]
Introduced: 2013-10-29
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Department of Health and Human Services

Health facilities and institutions

Hospital care

Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care

Medicare

Rural conditions and development
Latest action: action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-10-29
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Defending Rural Access to Long Term Acute Care Act of 2013 - Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) from applying to certain long-term care (LTC) hospitals operating in a single-hospital metropolitan statistical area (MSA) special (Medicare threshold) payment (adjustment) policies and regulations for: (1) LTC hospitals within hospitals and satellites of LTC hospitals, or (2) any such LTC hospitals and satellites that discharged patients under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act who were admitted from a hospital not located in the same building or on the same campus as the LTC hospital or satellite.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3365 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES October 29, 2013 Mr. Walberg (for himself, Mr. Graves of Missouri , Mr. Tiberi , and Mr. Messer ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means A BILL To exempt certain long-term care hospitals operating in a single-hospital MSA from the Medicare threshold payment adjustment policy for long-term care hospitals, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Defending Rural Access to Long Term Acute Care Act of 2013 . 2. Exemption from threshold payment adjustment policy for certain long-term care hospitals operating in a single-hospital MSA (a) In general The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall not apply sections 412.534 or 412.536 of title 42, Code of Federal Regulations, to any long-term care hospital operating in a single-hospital MSA (as defined in subsection (b)). (b) Long-Term care hospital operating in a single-Hospital MSA defined In this section, the term long-term care hospital operating in a single-hospital MSA means an entity that meets the following criteria on the date of the enactment of this Act: (1) The entity is a long-term care hospital as defined in section 1861(ccc) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395x(ccc) ), but is not a long-term care hospital described in section 1886(d)(1)(B)(iv)(II) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395ww(d)(1)(B)(iv)(II) ). (2) The entity is located in a Metropolitan Statistical Area (as defined by the Office of Management and Budget in OMB Bulletin 13–01 published February 28, 2013) that has only one subsection (d) hospital (as defined in section 1886(d)(2)(D) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395ww(d)(2)(D) ). (c) Effective date Subsection (a) applies to long-term care hospitals for cost reporting periods beginning on or after October 1, 2013.