Preserving Patient Access to Post-Acute Hospital Care Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-2108
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Toomey, Patrick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2015-09-30
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health facilities and institutions

Hospital care

Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care

Medicare
Latest action: action_date: 2015-09-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-09-30
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Preserving Patient Access to Post-Acute Hospital Care Act of 2015</b></p> <p>This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to delay by two additional years the application of negative payment adjustments under the &quot;25-percent rule&quot; to certain long-term care hospitals (LTCHs) and satellite facilities. This rule reduces payments to a long-term care facility that admits proportionately more patients from any single hospital.</p> <p>The bill also continues for two additional years the moratorium, for the purposes of Medicare, on establishing new LTCHs or increasing LTCH beds.</p>

tv_txt: II 114th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 2108 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES September 30, 2015 Mr. Toomey (for himself and Mr. Bennet ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance A BILL To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for an extension of certain long-term care hospital payment rules and the moratorium on the establishment of certain hospitals and facilities.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Preserving Patient Access to Post-Acute Hospital Care Act of 2015 . 2. Extension of certain LTCH payment rules and moratorium on the establishment of certain hospitals and facilities (a) Extension of certain payment rules (1) Payment for hospitals-within-hospitals Paragraph (2)(C) of section 114(c) of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 ( 42 U.S.C. 1395ww note), as amended by sections 3106(a) and 10312(a) of Public Law 111–148 and section 1206(b)(1)(A) of the Pathway for SGR Reform Act of 2013 (division B of Public Law 113–67 ), is amended by striking for a 9-year period and inserting and before October 1, 2018 . (2) 25 percent patient threshold payment adjustment Section 114(c)(1)(A) of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 ( 42 U.S.C. 1395ww note), as amended by sections 3106(a) and 10312(a) of Public Law 111–148 and section 1206(b)(1)(B) of the Pathway for SGR Reform Act of 2013 (division B of Public Law 113–67 ), is amended by striking for a 9-year period and inserting and before October 1, 2018 . (b) Extension of moratorium on establishment of and increase in beds for LTCHs Section 114(d) of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 ( 42 U.S.C. 1395ww note), as amended by sections 3106(b) and 10312(b) of Public Law 111–148 , section 1206(b)(2) of the Pathway for SGR Reform Act of 2013 (division B of Public Law 113–67 ), and section 112 of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 ( Public Law 113–93 ), is amended— (1) in paragraph (1), in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking September 30, 2017 and inserting September 30, 2019 ; and (2) in paragraph (6), by striking September 30, 2017 and inserting September 30, 2019 .