To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to permit review of certain Medicare payment determinations for disproportionate share hospitals, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-3024
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Boustany, Charles W., Jr. [R-LA-3]
Introduced: 2015-07-10
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies

Health facilities and institutions

Hospital care

Judicial review and appeals

Medicare
Latest action: action_date: 2015-07-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-07-10
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to repeal the prohibition against, and so permit, administrative or judicial review of any estimate used and any period selected for determining additional Medicare disproportionate share hospital payments to subsection (d) hospitals.</p> <p>(Generally, a subsection [d] hospital is an acute care hospital, particularly one that receives payments under Medicare's inpatient prospective payment system when providing covered inpatient services to eligible beneficiaries.)</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3024 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 10, 2015 Mr. Boustany (for himself and Mr. Lewis ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means A BILL To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to permit review of certain Medicare payment determinations for disproportionate share hospitals, and for other purposes.

1. Review of Medicare payment determinations for disproportionate share hospitals (a) In general Section 1886(r) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395ww(r) ) is amended by striking paragraph (3). (b) Effective date The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to any claim relating to a determination made under paragraph (2) of such section 1886(r) that is pending on a date that is on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.