[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1761 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1761

   To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to extend special 
   treatment rules under the medicare program for regional referral 
 centers and to permit a hospital that fails to qualify as a regional 
referral center under the program as a result of a change in geographic 
  classification to decline such change and qualify as such a center.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 21, 1993

    Mr. Roberts (for himself, Mr. Slattery, Mr. Lancaster, and Mr. 
  Bereuter) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to extend special 
   treatment rules under the medicare program for regional referral 
 centers and to permit a hospital that fails to qualify as a regional 
referral center under the program as a result of a change in geographic 
  classification to decline such change and qualify as such a center.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. EXTENSION OF SPECIAL TREATMENT RULES UNDER MEDICARE FOR 
              REGIONAL REFERRAL CENTERS.

    (a) Extension Through Fiscal Year 1994.--Section 6003(d) of the 
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989 (42 U.S.C. 1395ww note) is 
amended by striking ``October 1, 1992'' and inserting ``October 1, 
1994''.
    (b) Permitting Hospitals to Decline Reclassification.--If any 
hospital fails to qualify as a rural referral center under section 
1886(d)(5)(C) of the Social Security Act as a result of a decision by 
the Medicare Geographic Classification Review Board under section 
1886(d)(10) of such Act to reclassify the hospital as being located in 
an urban area for fiscal year 1994, the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services shall--
            (1) notify such hospital of such failure to qualify,
            (2) provide an opportunity for such hospital to decline 
        such reclassification, and
            (3) if the hospital declines such reclassification, 
        administer the Social Security Act (other than section 
        1886(d)(8)(D)) for fiscal year 1994 as if the decision by the 
        Review Board had not occurred.

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