[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1997 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1997

  To provide for reclassification of Chautauqua County, New York, for 
purposes of payment for inpatient hospital services under the Medicare 
                                Program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 23, 2007

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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide for reclassification of Chautauqua County, New York, for 
purposes of payment for inpatient hospital services under the Medicare 
                                Program.

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

SECTION 1. RECLASSIFICATION OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY, NEW YORK, FOR 
              PURPOSES OF PAYMENT FOR INPATIENT HOSPITAL SERVICES UNDER 
              THE MEDICARE PROGRAM.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, effective for 
discharges occurring on or after September 30, 2007, for purposes of 
making payments under section 1886(d) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1395ww(d)) the large urban area of Buffalo-Niagara Falls, New 
York is deemed to include Chautauqua County, New York. For purposes of 
that section, the reclassification under this section shall be treated 
as a decision of the Medicare Geographic Classification Review Board 
under paragraph (10) of that section, except that in no case shall 
there be a reduction in the hospital wage index for Erie County, New 
York, or any adjoining county, as a result of the application of this 
section (other than as a result of a general reduction required to 
carry out paragraph (10)(D) of that section).
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