[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1398 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1398

   To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to treat certain 
      provider taxes as allowable costs for purposes of Medicare 
              reimbursements to critical access hospitals.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 6, 2011

   Mr. Graves of Missouri (for himself and Mr. Kind) 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 treat certain 
      provider taxes as allowable costs for purposes of Medicare 
              reimbursements to critical access hospitals.

    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 ``Rural Hospital Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. CERTAIN PROVIDER TAXES TREATED AS ALLOWABLE COSTS FOR PURPOSES 
              OF MEDICARE CAH REIMBURSEMENTS.

    Section 1861(v)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395x(v)) 
is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
                    ``(W) In determining such reasonable costs for 
                critical access hospitals with respect to cost 
                reporting periods beginning on or after January 1, 
                2004, the Secretary shall include as allowable costs 
                any health care related taxes, as defined in section 
                1903(w)(3). In computing the reasonable costs with 
                respect to such health care related taxes for purposes 
                of the previous sentence, the Secretary shall not 
                offset against the amount of the tax assessments paid 
                by a critical access hospital any amounts that the 
                critical access hospital receives from a State if the 
                Secretary has not determined that there is in effect a 
                hold harmless provision, as described in section 
                1903(w)(4), with respect to the health care related 
                tax.''.
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