Preserving Patient Access to Post-Acute Hospital Care Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-4650
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Buchanan, Vern [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2016-02-29
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health facilities and institutions

Hospital care

Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care

Medicare
Latest action: action_date: 2016-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2016-02-29
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Preserving Patient Access to Post-Acute Hospital Care Act of 2016</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 "25-percent rule" to certain long-term care hospitals and satellite facilities. This rule reduces payments to a long-term care facility that admits proportionately more patients from any single hospital.</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 4650 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 29, 2016 Mr. Buchanan (for himself and Mr. Pascrell ) 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 provide for an extension of certain Medicare long-term care hospital payment rules.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Preserving Patient Access to Post-Acute Hospital Care Act of 2016 . 2. Extension of certain LTCH Medicare payment rules (a) 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 . (b) 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 .