[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3947 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3947

To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to treat certain clinics 
operated by children's hospitals as Federally-qualified health centers 
                      under the medicaid program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 3, 1994

 Ms. Lambert (for herself, Mr. Slattery, Mr. Brown of Ohio, Mr. Bachus 
 of Alabama, and Mr. Kennedy) introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to treat certain clinics 
operated by children's hospitals as Federally-qualified health centers 
                      under the medicaid program.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Access to Children's Health Care Act 
of 1994''.

SEC. 2. CLINICS OPERATED BY CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS AS FEDERALLY-QUALIFIED 
              HEALTH CENTERS UNDER MEDICAID.

    (a) In General.--Section 1905(l)(2)(B) of the Social Security Act 
(42 U.S.C. 1396d(l)(2)(B)), as amended by section 13606(a) of the 
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``or'' at the end of clause (iii); and
            (2) by redesignating clause (iv) as clause (v) and 
        inserting after clause (iii) the following new clause:
            ``(iv) is an entity--
                    ``(I) operated by a hospital whose inpatients are 
                predominantly individuals under 18 years of age;
                    ``(II) described in clause (iii), or which would be 
                described in clause (iii) but for the entity's failure 
                to meet the requirements of section 330(e)(3)(G) of the 
                Public Health Service Act;
                    ``(III) with a consumer advisory board composed of 
                individuals, a majority of whom are family members of 
                patients served by the entity, who advise the hospital 
                operating the entity on the entity's annual budget, the 
                selection of the entity's general director, and other 
                general policies for the entity; and
                    ``(IV) with written inpatient and outpatient 
                referral arrangements in effect with each Federally-
                qualified health center under this subparagraph that is 
                located or provides services within the service area of 
                the hospital operating the entity, or''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
apply to calendar quarters beginning on or after January 1, 1995.

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