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Example Input: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''Health Care Waiver Fairness Act of
2011''.

SEC. 2. PPACA WAIVER PROCESS.

(a) In General.--Title I of the Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act (Public Law 111-148) is amended by adding at the end the
following new subtitle:

''Subtitle G--Waiver Process

''SEC. 1601. ESTABLISHMENT OF WAIVER PROCESS.

''(a) In General.--The applicable authorities (as defined in
subsection (c)) shall collectively establish a process (in this section
referred to as the 'waiver process') under which the administrator of a
health plan, an employer, an individual, or other entity may seek to
waive the application of a requirement under this title with respect to
such plan, employer, individual, or entity. Among the requirements
under this title, such process shall apply to the following:
''(1) Section 5000A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
(relating to requirement to maintain minimum essential
coverage), as inserted by section 1501(b).
''(2) Section 6055 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
(relating to reporting of health insurance coverage), as
inserted by section 1502(a).
''(3) Section 18A of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
(42 U.S.C. 218a, relating to automatic enrollment for employees
of large employers), as inserted by section 1511.
''(4) Section 18B of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
(42 U.S.C. 218b, relating to notice to employees), as inserted
by section 1512.
''(5) Section 4980H of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
(relating to shared responsibility for employers regarding
health coverage), as inserted by section 1513(a).
''(6) Section 6056 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
(relating to certain employers required to report on health
insurance coverage), as inserted by section 1514(a).
''(7) Section 10108 (relating to free choice vouchers).
''(8) Regulations regarding the treatment of group health
plans or health insurance coverage as a grandfathered health
plan (as defined in section 1251(e)).
''(9) Section 2718(b) of the Public Health Service Act
(relating to medical loss ratios), as inserted by section 1001.
''(b) Waiver Process.--
''(1) In general.--The applicable authorities shall
establish the waiver process consistent with the following:
''(A) Notice and guidance.--Public notice and
guidance shall be provided regarding the process for
submission of waiver requests.
''(B) Standard.--A waiver request with respect to
the application of a requirement to a plan, employer,
individual, or entity shall be accompanied by a
statement that--
''(i) identifies the specific requirement
(or requirements) to be waived; and
''(ii) describes how the imposition of each
specific requirement for which a waiver is
requested on the plan, employer, individual, or
entity would result in a significant decrease
in access to coverage or a significant increase
in premiums or other costs for such plan,
employer, individual, or entity.
''(C) Deemed approval.--A waiver request filed that
is accompanied by such a statement shall be deemed to
be approved.
''(D) Publication of data.--The applicable
authorities shall regularly publish data regarding the
waiver requests received for the different
requirements.
''(2) Treatment of approved waivers.--In the case of
approval under the waiver process of a waiver request with
respect to a requirement of this title and an entity,
notwithstanding any other provision of law, such requirement
shall not apply to such entity on and after the date of
approval of the request.
''(3) Relation to other exemptions and exceptions.--Nothing
in this section shall be construed as superceding other
provisions of this title insofar as they provide for
exceptions, exemptions, or other special treatment with respect
to requirements under this title.
''(c) Applicable Authority.--In this section, the term 'applicable
authority' means--
''(1) except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the
Secretary of Health and Human Services;
''(2) the Secretary of Labor with respect to the provisions
of this title, including amendments made by this title, that
are administered by such Secretary; and
''(3) the Secretary of the Treasury with respect to the
provisions of this title, including amendments made by this
title, that are administered by such Secretary, including
sections of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 specified in
subsection (a).
''(d) References to Requirements Under This Title.--In this
section, a reference to a requirement under this title include such a
requirement under an amendment made by this title, including as amended
by title X of this Act or by the provisions of the Health Care and
Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-152).
''(e) Public Awareness Campaign.--Of the amounts available in the
Prevention and Public Health Fund established under section 4002,
notwithstanding any other provision of law, $50,000,000 shall be
available to and expended by the Secretary of Health and Human Services
to conduct, in coordination with other applicable authorities, a public
awareness campaign of the waiver process. Amounts made available under
this subsection shall remain available until expended.''.
(b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents of such Act is
amended by adding at the end of the items relating to title I the
following:

''Subtitle G--Waiver Process

''Sec. 1601. Establishment of waiver process.''.
Example Output: Health Care Waiver Fairness Act of 2011 - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Secretary of Labor, and the Secretary of Treasury to establish waiver processes under which the administrator of a health plan, an employer, an individual, or other entity may seek to waive the application of a health insurance coverage requirement under PPACA. Sets forth PPACA requirements that may be waived, including those related to minimum essential coverage and employers offering health care coverage to employees.

Establishes requirements for the waiver process, including requiring submission of a statement describing how the imposition of the PPACA requirement would result in a significant decrease in access to coverage or a significant increase in premiums or other costs for such plan, employer, individual, or entity. Deems to be approved any waiver including such a statement.

Requires the Secretary of HHS to conduct a public awareness campaign of the waiver process with funds made available for the Prevention and Public Health Fund.

Example Input: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; FINDINGS.

(a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ''Preserving Access
to Modern Prosthetic Limbs Act of 2016''.
(b) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
(1) The Medicare program includes coverage for prosthetic
limbs under section 1861(s)(9) of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 1395w(s)(9)).
(2) As a result of significant Federal and private
investment in research and development over the past decades,
beneficiaries with lower limb prostheses are able to maintain
optimal function and lead productive and independent lives.
(3) Federal spending for prosthetic devices in the Medicare
program has decreased by 15 percent between 2010 and 2014.
(4) The Secretary of Health and Human Services, through
Medicare contractors known as Durable Medical Equipment
Medicare Administrative Contractors, released on July 16, 2015,
a document entitled ''Local Coverage Determination (LCD): Lower
Limb Prostheses (DL33787)'', which applies to all Medicare
beneficiaries across the United States.
(5) The policies proposed in this document would
comprehensively change the requirements under which a Medicare
beneficiary would qualify for a lower limb prosthetic device
and would seriously restrict access to modern prosthetic care.
(6) If finalized, the changes proposed in this document
would create coverage requirements that are inconsistent with
current clinical practice and would arbitrarily and
unreasonably deny Medicare beneficiaries access to prosthetic
limb technologies considered the current standard of care.
(7) Under these proposed policies, beneficiaries instead
would be eligible for prosthetic devices that are functionally
outdated, less durable, and less safe.
(8) The adverse impact of the Medicare contractors'
proposed policies extend well beyond the Medicare program and
has implications for other Federal health programs, such as
health programs of the Veterans Administration, and commercial
insurers.
(9) Given the far reaching effect of these policies, and
the fact that little or no clinical or scientific evidence
supported the issuance of these proposals, any changes to
prosthetic limb coverage should be made only after a
transparent process in which evidence is offered to justify
coverage modifications, meaningful stakeholder feedback is
solicited, and the Secretary and Medicare contractors receive
and respond to this stakeholder feedback in a public manner.
(10) A moratorium on the implementation and enforcement of
these proposed policies would enable the Secretary and the
Medicare contractors to engage in such a transparent process.

SEC. 2. MORATORIUM ON IMPLEMENTATION OF PROPOSED MEDICARE LOCAL
COVERAGE DETERMINATION ON LOWER LIMB PROSTHESES.

(a) Moratorium.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services
and any Medicare Administrative Contractor may not implement
and enforce the policies in the LCD on lower limb prostheses
(as defined in subsection (d)(1)), in whole or in part, during
the period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act,
and ending on June 30, 2017.
(2) Removal of policy from websites.--The Secretary of
Health and Human Services and its medicare administrative
contractors shall remove the LCD on lower limb prostheses from
the websites of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
and its medicare administrative contractors during the period
of the moratorium under paragraph (1).
(b) Providing the Secretary With Authority To Oversee the
Development of Local Coverage Determinations.--Section 1862(l)(5) of
the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 395y(l)(5)) is amended--
(1) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as subparagraph (D);
and
(2) by inserting after subparagraph (B) the following new
subparagraph:
''(C) Secretary oversight and guidance in
developing local coverage determinations.--The
Secretary shall provide guidance and oversight of any
local coverage determination developed by a medicare
administrative contractor to ensure that the local
coverage determination is consistent with this
title.''.
(c) Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be construed to
prevent the Secretary from enforcing existing statutes, regulations,
and local coverage determinations other than with respect to policies
in the LCD on lower limb prostheses.
(d) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) LCD on lower limb prostheses.--The term ''LCD on lower
limb prostheses'' means the local coverage determination on
lower limb prostheses as proposed by a medicare administrative
contractor in the document (DL33787) released on July 16, 2015,
and any successor to such determination.
(2) Medicare administrative contractor.--The term
''medicare administrative contractor'' has the meaning given
such term in section 1874A(a)(3)(A) of the Social Security Act
(42 U.S.C. 1395kk-1(a)(3)(A)).
Example Output: Preserving Access to Modern Prosthetic Limbs Act of 2016 This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to postpone implementation and enforcement ofa local coverage determination (LCD) proposed by a Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) on lower limb prostheses. (An LCD is a decision by a MAC, which is a private insurer that processes Medicare claims within a specified geographicjurisdiction, as towhether to cover a service on a MAC-wide basis.) The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid shall provide guidance and oversight related to LCDs, as specified by the bill.

Example Input: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''Ending VA Claims Disability Backlog
and Accountability Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

Congress finds the following:
(1) The Secretary of Veterans Affairs is statutorily
obligated to provide to individuals who served in the Armed
Forces and sustained an injury as a direct result of such
service with health care, disability compensation, and related
resources.
(2) Disability compensation payments are intended to
provide relief for some of the socioeconomic and other losses
veterans experience as a result of service-connected diseases
and injuries.
(3) A recent review by the Government Accountability Office
found that the backlog of disability claims at the Department
of Veterans Affairs has more than tripled since 2009 and the
average length of time to complete a claim has increased from
161 days in 2009 to 260 days in 2012.
(4) In August 2012, approximately 568,043 claims or two-
thirds of all compensation rating claims are backlogged.
(5) The Government Accountability Office found that delays
in obtaining service and medical records for veterans who
served in the National Guard or Reserve is a significant factor
in lengthening the claims process for these veterans even
though they make up 43 percent of veterans who served during
the Global War on Terrorism.
(6) The Government Accountability Office found that if a
veteran submits a disability claim and reports receiving
disability benefits from the Social Security Administration,
the Department of Veterans Affairs is required to help the
veteran obtain relevant Federal records, including medical
records from the Social Security Administration to process the
claim.
(7) There is an interagency agreement between the
Department of Veterans Affairs and the Social Security
Administration, but the protocols of the Department and the
response time of the Administration can take a year before the
Department has obtained the requested information.
(8) The Government Accountability Office found that
approximately 50 percent of claims processing staff have been
in their current role for less than two years and are not yet
proficient in their duties requiring supervision and review
from more experienced claims processing staff, diverting them
from their claims processing responsibilities.
(9) Veterans and their families have already selflessly and
willingly sacrificed for our nation and faced numerous
hardships; they should not have to continue to face undue and
avoidable hardships after their service as they seek the
benefits they earned.
(10) On March 24, 2013, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Eric K. Shinseki stated in an interview on State of the Union
television show, ''no veteran should have to wait for claims as
they are today. We have a fix for this. We're open for
business. And we will end the backlog in 2015.''.
(11) On April 15, 2013, the Secretary, in written testimony
before the Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate, again
stated that the ''VA remains focused on eliminating the
disability claims backlog in 2015 and processing all claims
within 125 days at a 98-percent accuracy level.''.
(12) On April 19, 2013, the Secretary again stated in a New
York Times article titled ''V.A. Aims to Reduce Its Backlog of
Claims'', that the Department will ''eliminate the backlog by
2015.''.
(13) Numerous congressional inquiries for progress reports
and detailed information regarding the disability claims
backlog remain unanswered, while the Secretary continues to
state the claims backlog will be eliminated by 2015, claims
processing accuracy will be increased to 98 percent, and claims
processing will take no longer than 125 days as a direct result
of the ''Strategic Plan to Eliminate the Compensation Claims
Backlog'' of the Department.
(14) The Government Accountability Office found that the
''Strategic Plan to Eliminate the Compensation Claims Backlog''
of the Department does not adequately articulate how the
Department will meet its goals, and planning documents that the
Department provided does not meet the established criteria of
the Government Accountability Office for sound planning,
potentially leading to concerns about the ability of the
Department to reduce claims backlogs.

SEC. 3. TIMELINE AND METRICS TO RESOLVE BACKLOG OF DISABILITY CLAIMS.

(a) Implementation of Strategic Plan To Eliminate the Compensation
Claims Backlog.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall implement the
Strategic Plan to Eliminate the Compensation Claims Backlog, published
by the Secretary on January 25, 2013, to ensure that by Memorial Day
(May 25), 2015, each claim for disability compensation under the laws
administered by the Secretary (in this Act referred to as a ''claim'')
is approved or denied by not later than 125 days after the date on
which the claim is submitted with an accuracy rate of 98 percent.
(b) Supplemental Report.--Not later than 60 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall
submit to Congress a supplemental report to the Strategic Plan to
Eliminate the Compensation Claims Backlog that includes the following:
(1) Specific measures, procedures, and metrics to assess
the implementation of the plan pursuant to subsection (a).
(2) A detailed timeline to implement each initiative
contained in the Strategic Plan to Eliminate the Compensation
Claims Backlog.

SEC. 4. EXPEDITION OF TRANSFER OF CERTAIN RECORDS.

(a) SSA Records.--Not later than 60 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall enter
into an agreement with the Commissioner of the Social Security
Administration to ensure that the Commissioner transfers to the
Secretary disability or medical records of the Commissioner that the
Secretary will use to evaluate a claim by not later than 30 days after
the Secretary requests such records.
(b) DOD Records.--Not later than 60 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall enter
into an agreement with the Secretary of Defense to ensure that the
Secretary of Defense transfers to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs
medical records of members or former members of the Armed Forces that
the Secretary will use to evaluate a claim by not later than 30 days
after the Secretary requests such records.
(c) National Guard Records.--Not later than 60 days after the date
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the
Secretary of Defense shall jointly--
(1) submit to Congress a plan to reduce to 30 days the
amount of time needed to provide members of the National Guard
and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs with the medical records
of such members, including by partnering with appropriate
officials of Federal or State departments or agencies; and
(2) implement such plan.

SEC. 5. CLAIMS PROCESSORS TRAINING.

(a) Establishment.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall
establish a training program to provide newly hired claims processors
of the Department of Veterans Affairs with training for a period of not
less than three years. In carrying out such program, the Secretary
shall identify successful claims processors of the Department who can
assist in the training of newly hired claims processors.
(b) Ability to Process Claims.--The Secretary shall carry out the
training program established under subsection (a) without increasing
the amount of time in which claims are processed by the Department.

SEC. 6. REPORTS BY COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES.

(a) Reports.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, and each 90-day period thereafter, the
Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to Congress a
report on the progress of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in
implementing the Strategic Plan to Eliminate the Compensation Claims
Backlog pursuant to section 3(a).
(b) Matters Included.--Each report under subsection (a) shall
include the following:
(1) Whether the Secretary is meeting the timeline of the
Strategic Plan to Eliminate the Compensation Claims Backlog.
(2) An analysis of the implementation by the Secretary of
such plan.
(3) Administrative or regulatory recommendations of the
Comptroller General with respect to improving the ability of
the Secretary to carry out section 3(a).
Example Output:
Ending VA Claims Disability Backlog and Accountability Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to implement the Strategic Plan to Eliminate the Compensation Claims Backlog (Plan) to ensure that, by Memorial Day (May 25) 2015, each VA disability claim is approved or denied within 125 days after its submission, with an accuracy rate of 98%. Requires a supplemental report from the Secretary to Congress on specific measures to assess implementation of the Plan and a detailed timeline to implement each initiative contained in the Plan. Directs the Secretary to enter into agreements with the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration and the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to ensure that such Commissioner and DOD Secretary transfer to the VA disability or medical records the VA Secretary will use to evaluate a disability claim by not later than 30 days after the VA Secretary requests such records. Requires the two Secretaries to submit to Congress, and implement, a plan to reduce to 30 days the time needed to provide members of the National Guard and the VA Secretary with the medical records of such members. Requires the VA Secretary to establish a three-year training program for newly-hired VA claims processors. Directs the Comptroller General to report to Congress every 90 days on the Secretary's progress in implementing the Plan.