[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2580 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2580

   To provide for a technical change to the Medicare long-term care 
         hospital moratorium exception, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 29, 2015

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

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide for a technical change to the Medicare long-term care 
         hospital moratorium exception, 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 ``LTCH Technical Correction Act of 
2015''.

SEC. 2. TECHNICAL CHANGE TO THE MEDICARE LONG-TERM CARE HOSPITAL 
              MORATORIUM EXCEPTION.

    (a) In General.--Section 114(d) of the Medicare, Medicaid, and 
SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 1395ww note), as amended by 
sections 3106(b) and 10312(b) of Public Law 111-148, section 1206(b)(2) 
of the Pathway for SGR Reform Act of 2013 (division B of Public Law 
113-67), and section 112 of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 
2014, is amended, in paragraph (7), by striking ``The moratorium under 
paragraph (1)(A)'' and inserting ``Any moratorium under paragraph (1)'' 
in the matter preceding subparagraph (A).
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect as if included in the enactment of section 112 of the 
Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014.

SEC. 3. MODIFICATION TO MEDICARE LONG-TERM CARE HOSPITAL OUTLIER 
              PAYMENTS.

    Section 1886(m) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395ww(m)) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(7) Treatment of outlier payments.--
                    ``(A) Reduction factor in establishing outlier 
                pool.--Under the system described in paragraph (1), for 
                rate years beginning on or after October 1, 2016, in 
                adjusting the standard Federal rate for outlier 
                payments, the Secretary shall apply a reduction factor 
                of 8 percent to establish an outlier pool.
                    ``(B) Limitation on payment amounts.--In 
                reimbursing outlier payments under such system for such 
                rate years, the Secretary shall structure pool payments 
                such that the amounts paid in a rate year for outlier 
                payments do not exceed an amount equivalent to 99.0625 
                percent of the outlier pool established under 
                subparagraph (A) for such rate year.
                    ``(C) Waiver of budget neutrality.--Any reduction 
                in payments resulting from the application of 
                subparagraphs (A) and (B) shall not be taken into 
                account in applying any budget neutrality provision 
                under such system.
                    ``(D) No effect on site neutral payment rate.--This 
                paragraph shall not apply with respect to the 
                computation of the applicable site neutral payment rate 
                under paragraph (6).''.
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