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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Medicare Spending Transparency Act 
of 2011''.

SEC. 2. PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF AGGREGATE DATA ON MEDICARE PROVIDERS OF 
              SERVICES AND SUPPLIERS.

    (a) Purpose.--The purpose of this section is to make aggregate 
information about providers of services and suppliers under the 
Medicare program under title XVIII of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1395 et seq.) publicly available and to provide a new level of 
transparency in such program.
    (b) Public Availability.--Section 1128J of the Social Security Act 
(42 U.S.C. 1320a-7k) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subsection:
    ``(f) Public Availability of Certain Medicare Data.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Secretary shall, to the extent 
        consistent with applicable information, privacy, security, and 
        disclosure laws, including the regulations promulgated under 
        the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 
        and section 552a of title 5, United States Code, make available 
        to the public on the Internet website of the Centers for 
        Medicare & Medicaid Services the following data with respect to 
        title XVIII:
                    ``(A) A complete list of the providers of services 
                and suppliers participating in the program under such 
                title, including the business address of such providers 
                of services and suppliers.
                    ``(B) Aggregate information about each such 
                provider of services and supplier, including--
                            ``(i) the total number of individuals 
                        furnished items or services by the provider of 
                        services or supplier for which payment was made 
                        under such title during the preceding year;
                            ``(ii) the number of unique patient 
                        encounters conducted by the provider of 
                        services or supplier for which payment was made 
                        under such title during the preceding year;
                            ``(iii) the average number of codes billed 
                        under such title by the provider of services of 
                        supplier per patient encounter during the 
                        preceding year;
                            ``(iv) the total amount paid to such 
                        provider of services or supplier under such 
                        title during the preceding year;
                            ``(v) the top 50 billing codes on claims 
                        paid under such title to the provider of 
                        services or supplier during the preceding year, 
                        as determined by volume, including a 
                        description of such codes;
                            ``(vi) the top 50 billing codes on such 
                        claims paid during such year, as determined by 
                        dollar amount, including a description of such 
                        codes; and
                            ``(vii) the top 50 diagnosis and procedure 
                        code pairs on such claims paid during such 
                        year, as determined by volume, including a 
                        description of such codes.
            ``(2) Implementation.--Not later than 1 year after the date 
        of enactment of the Medicare Spending Transparency Act of 2011, 
        the Secretary shall promulgate regulations to carry out this 
        subsection.''.

SEC. 3. ACCESS TO MEDICARE CLAIMS AND PAYMENT DATA BY QUALIFIED 
              INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS.

    (a) Purpose.--The purpose of this section is to allow qualified 
individuals and groups access to information on claims and payment data 
under the Medicare program for purposes of conducting health research 
and detecting fraud under such program.
    (b) Access to Medicare Claims and Payment Data by Qualified 
Individuals and Groups.--Section 1128J of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1320a-7k), as amended by section 2, is amended by adding at the 
end the following new subsection:
    ``(g) Access to Medicare Claims and Payment Data by Qualified 
Individuals and Groups.--
            ``(1) In general.--For purposes of conducting health 
        research and detecting fraud under title XVIII, and to the 
        extent consistent with applicable information, privacy, 
        security, and disclosure laws, including the regulations 
        promulgated under the Health Insurance Portability and 
        Accountability Act of 1996 and section 552a of title 5, United 
        States Code, and subject to any information systems security 
        requirements under such laws or otherwise required by the 
        Secretary, a qualified individual or group shall have access to 
        claims and payment data of the Department of Health and Human 
        Services and its contractors related to title XVIII. 
        Notwithstanding any other provision of law, such data shall 
        include the identity of individual providers of services and 
        suppliers under such title.
            ``(2) Definition of qualified individual or group.--
                    ``(A) In general.--In this subsection, the term 
                `qualified individual or group' means an individual or 
                entity that the Secretary has determined, in accordance 
                with subparagraph (B), has relevant experience, 
                knowledge, and technical expertise in medicine, 
                statistics, health care billing, practice patterns, 
                health care fraud detection, and analysis to use data 
                provided to the individual or the entity under this 
                subsection in an appropriate, responsible, and ethical 
                manner and for the purposes described in paragraph (1).
                    ``(B) Procedures.--The Secretary shall establish 
                procedures for determining, in a timely manner, whether 
                an individual or entity is a qualified individual or 
                group.
            ``(3) Procedures.--The Secretary shall establish procedures 
        for the storage and use of data provided to a qualified 
        individual or group under this subsection. Such procedures 
        shall ensure that, in the case where the qualified individual 
        or group publishes an analysis of such data (or any analysis 
        using such data), the qualified individual or group discloses 
        the following information (in a form and manner, and at a time, 
        specified by the Secretary):
                    ``(A) The name of the qualified individual or 
                group.
                    ``(B) The sources of any funding for the qualified 
                individual or group.
                    ``(C) Any employer or other relevant affiliations 
                of the qualified individual or group.
                    ``(D) The data analysis methods used by the 
                qualified individual or group in the analysis 
                involved.''.
Medicare Spending Transparency Act of 2011 - Amends title XI of the Social Security Act (SSA) to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), consistent with applicable information, privacy, security, and disclosure laws, to make public on the Internet website of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services the following data with respect to SSA title XVIII (Medicare): (1) a complete list of service providers and suppliers participating in the Medicare program, including their business addresses; and (2) certain aggregate information about each provider and supplier.

Entitles a qualified individual or group, for health research and fraud detection purposes, to access to Medicare claims and payment data of both HHS and its contractors. Directs the Secretary to establish procedures for the storage and use of data provided to such an individual or group.

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Safe and Reliable Air Travel Act of 
2013''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) Sequestration is having a devastating effect on the 
        Nation's air traffic control system.
            (2) Sequestration imposes a reduction in funding of $637 
        million on the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the 
        remainder of fiscal year 2013.
            (3) The FAA plans to furlough the vast majority of the 
        FAA's nearly 47,000 employees, including nearly 15,000 air 
        traffic controllers, for approximately one day during each two-
        week pay period in order to comply with sequestration.
            (4) The furloughs began on Sunday, April 21, 2013, and are 
        scheduled to continue through the end of the fiscal year on 
        September 30, 2013. Approximately 10 percent of the FAA's air 
        traffic controllers are expected to be on furlough on any given 
        day during this period.
            (5) The furloughs are causing hundreds of flights to be 
        delayed, resulting in scheduling difficulties for airlines and 
        inconveniences for passengers.
            (6) The FAA reported that approximately 400 flights were 
        delayed nationwide on April 21, 2013, as a result of the 
        furloughs.
            (7) The FAA reported that more than 1,200 flights were 
        delayed nationwide on April 22, 2013, as a result of the 
        furloughs.
            (8) More delays are expected in the coming months during 
        the peak summer travel season.
            (9) The effects of multiple flight delays at airports 
        across the Nation can be compounded as delays at one airport 
        cause planes to arrive late at other airports and also cause 
        passengers to miss connecting flights.
            (10) Air carriers operating in United States air space 
        transport more than 700 million passengers every year.
            (11) Civil aviation accounts for 10 million jobs, is 
        responsible for more than 5 percent of the United States gross 
        domestic product, and contributes $1.3 trillion to the economy 
        every year.
            (12) Businesses of all sizes depend upon a reliable 
        commercial air transportation system. Business travelers 
        account for millions of trips each month.
            (13) Flight delays for business travelers interfere with 
        business plans and result in business meetings being delayed, 
        cancelled, or missed.
            (14) Flight delays affecting the transportation of air 
        cargo also interfere with business.
            (15) The Nation's economy depends upon a reliable 
        commercial air transportation system.
            (16) The FAA also plans to close 149 air traffic control 
        towers at small airports across the Nation on June 15, 2013, in 
        order to comply with sequestration. Despite their size, these 
        airports are an important part of the Nation's air 
        transportation system and economy.
            (17) Air traffic control is a critical government function 
        that is necessary to ensure the safety of air travel and the 
        flying public.
            (18) Inadequate staffing of airport control towers poses a 
        serious threat to public safety.
            (19) Without the service of experienced air traffic 
        controllers in all of the Nation's Federal air traffic control 
        towers, there is an increased risk of accidents involving 
        planes during departure, flight, and landing. Such accidents 
        could result in a tragic loss of life.
            (20) The sequestration of funds associated with the 
        operation of air traffic control towers by the FAA interferes 
        with the safety, reliability, and efficiency of the Nation's 
        air transportation system.
            (21) The operation of air traffic control towers by the 
        FAA, including the compensation paid to air traffic control 
        personnel employed by the FAA, should be exempted from 
        sequestration.

SEC. 3. EXEMPTION FROM SEQUESTRATION FOR OPERATION OF AIR TRAFFIC 
              CONTROL TOWERS.

    (a) In General.--Section 255 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 905) is amended by adding at the 
end the following new subsection:
    ``(k) Operation of Air Traffic Control Towers.--The following funds 
shall be exempt from reduction under any order issued under this part:
            ``(1) Funds made available for the operation of air traffic 
        control towers by the Federal Aviation Administration, 
        including compensation paid to air traffic control personnel 
        employed by the Federal Aviation Administration.
            ``(2) Funds made available for the operation of contract 
        air traffic control towers under section 47124 of title 49, 
        United States Code.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by section 1 shall apply to 
the Presidential sequestration order for fiscal year 2013 issued under 
section 251A of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901a) and any subsequent sequestration order issued 
under that Act.
Safe and Reliable Air Travel Act of 2013 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to exempt from reduction, under any sequestration ordered by the President, funds made available for the operation of: (1) air traffic control towers by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), including compensation paid to FAA air traffic control personnel; and (2) contract air traffic control towers.

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Nutria Eradication and Control Act 
of 2011''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS; PURPOSE.

    Section 2 of the Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2003 (Public 
Law 108-16; 117 Stat. 621) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``and in 
                Louisiana'' and inserting ``, the State of Louisiana, 
                and other coastal States'';
                    (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ``in Maryland and 
                Louisiana on Federal, State, and private land'' and 
                inserting ``on Federal, State, and private land in the 
                States of Maryland and Louisiana and in other coastal 
                States''; and
                    (C) by striking paragraphs (3) and (4) and 
                inserting the following:
            ``(3) This Act authorizes the Maryland Nutria Project, 
        which has successfully eradicated nutria from more than 130,000 
        acres of Chesapeake Bay wetlands in the State of Maryland and 
        facilitated the creation of voluntary, public-private 
        partnerships and more than 406 cooperative landowner 
        agreements.
            ``(4) This Act and the Coastal Wetlands Planning, 
        Protection, and Restoration Act (16 U.S.C. 3951 et seq.) 
        authorize the Coastwide Nutria Control Program, which has 
        reduced nutria-impacted wetland acres in the State of Louisiana 
        from 80,000 acres to 23,141 acres.
            ``(5) The proven techniques developed under this Act that 
        are eradicating nutria in the State of Maryland and reducing 
        the acres of nutria-impacted wetlands in the State of Louisiana 
        should be applied to nutria eradication or control programs in 
        other nutria-infested coastal States''; and
            (2) by striking subsection (b) and inserting the following:
    ``(b) Purpose.--The purpose of this Act is to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to provide financial assistance to the States 
of Delaware, Louisiana, Maryland, North Carolina, Oregon, Virginia, and 
Washington to carry out activities--
            ``(1) to eradicate or control nutria; and
            ``(2) to restore nutria damaged wetlands.''.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    The Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-16; 
117 Stat. 621) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating sections 3 and 4 as sections 4 and 5, 
        respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after section 2 the following:

``SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    ``In this Act:
            ``(1) Coastal state.--The term `coastal State' means each 
        of the States of Delaware, Oregon, North Carolina, Virginia, 
        and Washington.
            ``(2) Program.--The term `program' means the nutria 
        eradication program established by section 4(a).
            ``(3) Public-private partnership.--The term `public-private 
        partnership' means a voluntary, cooperative project undertaken 
        by governmental entities or public officials and affected 
        communities, local citizens, nongovernmental organizations, or 
        other entities or persons in the private sector.
            ``(4) Secretary.--The term `Secretary' means the Secretary 
        of the Interior.''.

SEC. 4. NUTRIA ERADICATION PROGRAM.

    Section 4 of the Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2003 (Public 
Law 108-16; 117 Stat. 621) (as redesignated by section 3) is amended--
            (1) by striking subsection (a) and inserting the following:
    ``(a) In General.--The Secretary may, subject to the availability 
of appropriations, provide financial assistance to the States of 
Maryland and Louisiana and the coastal States to implement measures--
            ``(1) to eradicate or control nutria; and
            ``(2) to restore wetlands damaged by nutria.'';
            (2) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``the State of'' 
                before ``Maryland'';
                    (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ``other States'' 
                and inserting ``the coastal States''; and
                    (C) in paragraph (3), by striking ``marshland'' and 
                inserting ``wetlands'';
            (3) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) by striking ``(c) Activities'' and inserting 
                ``(c) Activities in the State of Maryland''; and
                    (B) by inserting ``, and updated in March 2009'' 
                before the period at the end;
            (4) in subsection (e), by striking ``financial assistance 
        provided by the Secretary under this section'' and inserting 
        ``the amounts made available under subsection (f) to carry out 
        the program''; and
            (5) by striking subsection (f) and inserting the following:
    ``(f) Authorization of Appropriations.--Subject to subsection (e), 
for each of fiscal years 2012 through 2016, there are authorized to be 
appropriated to the Secretary to carry out the program such sums as are 
necessary.''.

SEC. 5. REPORT.

    Section 5 of the Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2003 (Public 
Law 108-16; 117 Stat. 621) (as redesignated by section 3) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``2002 document entitled 
        `Eradication Strategies for Nutria in the Chesapeake and 
        Delaware Bay Watersheds'; and'' and inserting ``March 2009 
        update of the document entitled `Eradication Strategies for 
        Nutria in the Chesapeake and Delaware Bay Watersheds' and 
        originally dated March 2002;'';
            (2) in paragraph (2)--
                    (A) by striking ``develop'' and inserting 
                ``continue''; and
                    (B) by striking the period at the end and inserting 
                ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding after paragraph (2) the following:
            ``(3) develop, in cooperation with the State of Delaware 
        Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, the 
        State of Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, the 
        State of Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, the State of 
        North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, 
        and the State of Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, 
        long-term nutria control or eradication programs, as 
        appropriate, with the objective of--
                    ``(A) significantly reducing and restoring the 
                damage nutria cause to coastal wetlands in the coastal 
                States; and
                    ``(B) promoting voluntary, public-private 
                partnerships to eradicate or control nutria and 
                restoring nutria-damaged wetlands in the coastal 
                States.''.

Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2011 - Amends the Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2003 to revise the nutria eradication program by authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to provide financial assistance to Delaware, Louisiana, Maryland, North Carolina, Oregon, Virginia, and Washington (currently only to Maryland and Louisiana).

Establishes the goals of such Program as: (1) eradicating nutria in Maryland; (2) eradicating or controlling nutria in Louisiana, Delaware, North Carolina, Oregon, Virginia, and Washington; and (3) restoring wetlands damaged by nutria.

Requires that the Maryland program consist of management, research, and public education activities carried out in accordance with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service's document entitled "Eradication Strategies for Nutria in the Chesapeake and Delaware Bay Watersheds" dated March 2002 and updated in March 2009.

Authorizes appropriations for FY2012-FY2016.

Requires the Secretary and the National Invasive Species Council to develop long-term nutria control or eradication programs to: (1) significantly reduce and restore nutria damaged wetlands in Delaware, Oregon, North Carolina, Virginia, and Washington; and (2) promote voluntary, public-private partnerships to eradicate or control nutria and restore nutria-damaged wetlands in such states.