Increasing Hospital Capacity to Fight the Coronavirus Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-6336
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Bishop, Dan [R-NC-9]
Introduced: 2020-03-23
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Building construction

Cardiovascular and respiratory health

Emergency medical services and trauma care

Health facilities and institutions

Health programs administration and funding

Infectious and parasitic diseases

Medicaid

Medicare

State and local government operations
Latest action: action_date: 2020-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-03-23
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Increasing Hospital Capacity to Fight the Coronavirus Act of 2020</b></p> <p>This bill allows unapproved capital expenses that are made by health care facilities during the public health emergency declared on January 31, 2020, relating to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) to be included in federal payment determinations under Medicare and Medicaid. </p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 6336 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 23, 2020 Mr. Bishop of North Carolina (for himself, Mr. Banks , and Mr. Budd ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce , and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means , for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned A BILL To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to provide for a waiver of payment reductions under the Medicare and Medicaid programs for certain nonapproved capital expenditures undertaken by health care facilities during the COVID-19 emergency.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Increasing Hospital Capacity to Fight the Coronavirus Act of 2020 . 2. Providing for a waiver of payment reductions under the Medicare and Medicaid programs for certain nonapproved capital expenditures undertaken by health care facilities during the COVID-19 emergency (a) In general Section 1122(d) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1320a–1(d) ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (1), by inserting or (3) after paragraph (2) ; and (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (3) No payment reduction shall be made pursuant to paragraph (1) with respect to an obligation for a capital expenditure made during the emergency period defined in section 1135(g)(1)(B). . (b) Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that any State requirement relating to the approval of capital expenditures of health care facilities located in such State (commonly referred to as certificate of need laws ) should be waived for the duration of the emergency period defined in section 1135(g)(1)(B) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1320b–5(g)(1)(B) ).