[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4669 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4669

    To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide that 
  hospitals located in territories are eligible for electronic health 
    record incentive payments under Medicare in the same manner as 
    hospitals located in one of the 50 States are eligible for such 
                          incentive payments.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 23, 2010

Mr. Pierluisi (for himself, Mr. Sablan, Ms. Bordallo, Mr. Faleomavaega, 
Mr. Serrano, and Mrs. Christensen) introduced the following bill; which 
            was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide that 
  hospitals located in territories are eligible for electronic health 
    record incentive payments under Medicare in the same manner as 
    hospitals located in one of the 50 States are eligible for such 
                          incentive payments.

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

SECTION 1. HOSPITALS IN TERRITORIES ELIGIBLE FOR MEDICARE EHR INCENTIVE 
              PAYMENTS.

    Section 1886(n)(6)(B) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1395ww(n)(6)(B)) is amended by inserting ``and includes any hospital 
located in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, 
American Samoa, or the Northern Mariana Islands that would be a 
subsection (d) hospital if the hospital were located in one of the 50 
States'' before the period at the end.
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