[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2712 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2712

    To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to increase the 
    percentage of the national rate payable for inpatient hospitals 
services applicable to hospitals located in Puerto Rico to 100 percent.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 4, 1999

 Mr. Romero-Barcelo (for himself, Mr. Rangel, Mr. McDermott, Mr. Young 
 of Alaska, Mr. Towns, and Mr. McCrery) 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 increase the 
    percentage of the national rate payable for inpatient hospitals 
services applicable to hospitals located in Puerto Rico to 100 percent.

    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 ``Medicare Puerto Rico Hospital 
Payment Parity Act of 1999''.

SEC. 2. INCREASE IN BASE PAYMENT AMOUNTS TO PUERTO RICO HOSPITALS.

    Section 1886(d)(9) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1395ww(d)(9)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A)(i), to read as follows:
            ``(i) for discharges beginning on or after October 1, 2000, 
        the Puerto Rico percentage (as defined in subparagraph (E)) 
        (and for discharges occurring on or after October 1, 1997, and 
        before October 1, 2000, 50 percent) of the Puerto Rico adjusted 
        DRG prospective payment rate (determined under subparagraph (B) 
        or (C)) for such discharges, and'';
            (2) in subparagraph (A)(ii) in the matter preceding 
        subclause (I) to read as follows:
            ``(ii) for discharges beginning in a fiscal year beginning 
        on or after October 1, 2000, the national percentage (as 
        defined in subparagraph (E)) (and for discharges occurring on 
        or after October 1, 1997, and before October 1, 2000, 50 
        percent) of the discharge-weighted average of--''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
    ``(E) For purposes of this subparagraph (A), for discharges 
beginning--
            ``(i) on or after October 1, 2000, and before October 1, 
        2001, the `Puerto Rico percentage' is 30 percent and the 
        `national percentage' is 70 percent;
            ``(ii) on or after October 1, 2001, and before October 1, 
        2002, the `Puerto Rico percentage' is 15 percent and the 
        `national percentage' is 85 percent; and
            ``(iii) on or after October 1, 2002, the `Puerto Rico 
        percentage' is 0 percent and the `national percentage' is 100 
        percent.''.
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