[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5108 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5108

 To provide for the geographic reclassification of a county under the 
  Medicare Program to provide for more equitable payments under that 
              program to hospitals located in that county.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 6, 2000

 Mr. McIntosh introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for the geographic reclassification of a county under the 
  Medicare Program to provide for more equitable payments under that 
              program to hospitals located in that county.

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

SECTION. 1. RECLASSIFICATION OF A CERTAIN COUNTY FOR PURPOSES OF 
              REIMBURSEMENT UNDER THE MEDICARE PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
effective for discharges occurring on or after October 1, 2001, and 
before October 1, 2003, for purposes of making payments under section 
1886(d) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395ww(d)) to hospitals 
in Lake County, Indiana, such county is deemed to be located in the 
Chicago, Illinois, Metropolitan Statistical Area.
    (b) Construction.--For purposes of such section 1886(d), the 
reclassification under subsection (a) shall be treated as a decision of 
the Medicare Geographic Classification Review Board under paragraph 
(10) of that section.
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