[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 405 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 405

     To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the 
 restriction on payment for certain hospital discharges to post-acute 
    care imposed by section 4407 of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 19, 1999

  Mr. Nussle (for himself, Mr. Ewing, Mr. Boehlert, Ms. Sanchez, Mr. 
   Condit, Mr. Oberstar, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Peterson of Minnesota, Mr. 
  Mascara, Mr. Serrano, Mr. Price of North Carolina, and Mr. Meehan), 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
  Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Commerce, for a 
 period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the 
 restriction on payment for certain hospital discharges to post-acute 
    care imposed by section 4407 of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997.

    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 Common Sense Hospital 
Payment Act of 1999''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF RESTRICTION ON MEDICARE PAYMENT FOR CERTAIN HOSPITAL 
              DISCHARGES TO POST-ACUTE CARE.

    (a) In General.--Section 1886(d)(5) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1395ww(d)(5)), as amended by section 4407 of the Balanced Budget 
Act of 1997 (Public Law 105-33), is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (I)(ii), by striking ``not taking in 
        account the effect of subparagraph (J),'', and
            (2) by striking subparagraph (J).
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) apply to 
discharges occurring on or after October 1, 1999.
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