[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2391 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2391

  To amend the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and 
Protection Act of 2000 to permanently apply the Balanced Budget Act of 
1997 medicaid disproportionate share transition payment rule to public 
            hospitals in all States, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 29, 2002

  Mr. Durbin introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and 
Protection Act of 2000 to permanently apply the Balanced Budget Act of 
1997 medicaid disproportionate share transition payment rule to public 
            hospitals in all States, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Medicaid DSH Equity Act of 2002''.

SEC. 2. PERMANENT APPLICATION OF BBA MEDICAID DSH TRANSITION PAYMENT 
              RULE TO PUBLIC HOSPITALS IN ALL STATES.

    (a) In General.--Section 701(c) of the Medicare, Medicaid, and 
SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 1396r-
4 note) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``During the period 
        described in paragraph (3), with respect to a State,'' and 
        inserting ``Beginning, with respect to a State, on the first 
        day of the first State fiscal year that begins after September 
        30, 2002,'';
            (2) by striking paragraph (3); and
            (3) by redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph (3).
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect as if included in the enactment of section 701(c) of the 
Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act 
of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 1396r-4 note).

SEC. 3. INTEGRITY OF MEDICAID FUNDS.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Health 
and Human Services shall credit any funds that are paid to a State for 
the Federal share of State expenditures incurred to carry out a State 
program under title XIX of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et 
seq.) or to make disproportionate share hospital adjustment payments 
under section 1923 of that Act (42 U.S.C. 1396r-4) and are not expended 
by the State for such purposes against the amount of the Federal share 
that would otherwise be paid to the State for any such future State 
expenditures.
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