To amend the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 to make permanent the exemption of grandfathered long-term care hospitals from the Medicare 25 percent threshold payment adjustment.

Bill: 113-hr-3668
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Kildee, Daniel T. [D-MI-5]
Introduced: 2013-12-05
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health facilities and institutions

Hospital care

Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care

Medicare
Latest action: action_date: 2013-12-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-12-05
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Amends the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 to make permanent the exemption of grandfathered long-term care hospitals from the 25% patient threshold payment adjustment under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3668 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 5, 2013 Mr. Kildee introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means A BILL To amend the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 to make permanent the exemption of grandfathered long-term care hospitals from the Medicare 25 percent threshold payment adjustment.

1. Making permanent the exemption of grandfathered long-term care hospitals from the Medicare 25 percent patient threshold payment adjustment Section 114(c)(1) of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 ( 42 U.S.C. 1395ww note), as amended by section 3106 of Public Law 111–148 , is further amended— (1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking for a 5-year period ; and (2) in subparagraph (A), by inserting for a 5-year period, before section 412.536 .