[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4991 Introduced in House (IH)]

  2d Session
                                H. R. 4991

        To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to revise 
  disproportionate share hospital payments under the medicaid program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 21, 2002

  Mr. Tauzin 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 revise 
  disproportionate share hospital payments under the medicaid program.

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

SEC. 903. DISPROPORTIONATE SHARE HOSPITAL (DSH) PAYMENTS.

    Section 1923(f)(3) (42 U.S.C. 1396r-4(f)(3)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A), by amending subparagraph (A) to 
        read as follows:
                    ``(A) In general.--The DSH allotment for any 
                State--
                            ``(i) for fiscal year 2003 is equal to the 
                        DSH allotment for the State for fiscal year 
                        2001 under the table in paragraph (2), without 
                        regard to paragraph (4), increased, subject to 
                        subparagraph (B) and paragraph (5), by the 
                        percentage change in the consumer price index 
                        for all urban consumers (all items; U.S. city 
                        average), for fiscal year 2001; and
                            ``(ii) for each succeeding fiscal year is 
                        equal to the DSH allotment for the State for 
                        the previous fiscal year under this 
                        subparagraph increased, subject to subparagraph 
                        (B) and paragraph (5), by 1.7 percent or, in 
                        the case of fiscal years beginning with the 
                        fiscal year specified in subparagraph (C) for 
                        that State, the percentage change in the 
                        consumer price index for all urban consumers 
                        (all items; U.S. city average), for the 
                        previous fiscal year.''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
                    ``(C) Fiscal year specified.--For purposes of 
                subparagraph (A)(ii), the fiscal year specified in this 
                subparagraph for a State is the first fiscal year for 
                which the Secretary estimates that the DSH allotment 
                for that State will equal (or no longer exceed) the DSH 
                allotment for that State under the law as in effect 
                before the date of the enactment of this 
                subparagraph.''.
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